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Massive Explosion On the Sun
Endoflow2010 sends word of an enormous eruption that occurred on the Sun this morning. Phil Plait describes it thus:
"What you’re seeing here is a solar flare (an enormous explosion of pent-up magnetic energy) coupled with a prominence (a physical eruption of gas from the surface). This event blasted something like a billion tons of material away from the Sun. Note the size of it, too: while it started from a small region on the Sun’s surface, it quickly expanded into a plume easily as big as the Sun itself! I’d estimate its size at well over a million kilometers across."
The attached video is well worth watching.
That's what it looks like in the video...
... it's just passing gas.
Those are all amazing videos though.
Could events like this be where the matter came from for building the planets?
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...but it's a little hard to tell since the whole thing doesn't fit in the video frame.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
I can't wait to see what effect this has on those electronic things in orbit..
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You need to see both to get a fuller appreciation of the scale, but the 2nd video in the article is more impressive, IMHO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpkXhlPIINQ
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NASA- Having a Solar Blast
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I know. First thing I thought of when I saw the headline was 'Um, it's the sun, they are all freaking huge.' Even setting aside that the sun it self is a constant nuke fireball, just about any event we can notice at the scale of the vid is likely to be larger then the earth. Once the low end of a scale is 'An explosion the size of earth', I really find it hard to worry about the bigger ones. I'm kinda peeked out by the low end of the scale already, Honestly, my O-Shit-O-Meter would have been more then maxed out with most volcanoes erupting in any proximity to me that I could notice it. So something this much larger.. Well, needle on the meter is broke now, not sure what that reads as.
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Before you watch the video PLEASE find a way to do so without looking at it directly. A pinhole viewer (http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/pinhole3.html) will allow you to view your AVI files without suffering damage to your eyesight.
This video is speed up- the video contains about 12 hours of footage. Note also that given where the sun is in the solar cycle we can likely expect more similar events soon. If any of them end up heading more directly in the direction of Earth it could interfere badly with electronics, especially in satellites. But we haven't gotten a really bad flare since the 19th century, but then there were events that even interfered with telegraph lines. And our current electronics are a lot more sensitive than stuff they had back then.
IDNRTA (I did not read the article), is this video in actual time or some kind of sped up? If it's actual speed then those flames were moving insanely fast. Regardless of that aspect, they travel a very far distance.
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Implosion.
I assume it's in fast forward; given the size of the Sun itself, the gas seems to move/expand at relativistic speeds or faster (light needs ~4.64 seconds to run along a Sun diameter).
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You think that's bad, wait until you read about Gamma-Ray Bursts. A big pulse of gamma radiation which - if one occurred near enough to us (say, in the same galaxy and pointing in our direction) would wipe out all life on Earth. Gamma rays travel at the speed of light. We wouldn't see it coming. There might be one hitting the edge of the atmosphere right now.
Too late to use those mod points...
I know...solar prominence...etc....but damned if that headline doesn't sound like something out of The Onion.
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It shows the time in the bottom left. It looks like the majority of the activity took place over 3 hours.
Noone can survive such explosion, not even the Sun. Maybe won't be apparent by now, but we will see the consequences of this next year.
I hope the EM waves don't disrupt any US networks, because then DoD would consider that a cyber attack and retaliate with thermonuclear weapons.
The way they cropped the video of the sun makes it impossible to see a good part of the flare. Well, it is the bad astronomy blog. So what did I expect?
Have gnu, will travel.
I thought the IRA had finally vaporized that annoying Brit tabloid.
Events taking place on the surface of the sun should not be described as "morning." It's always noon on the sun. Duh.
A billion tons of material blown away.
But "warming" is caused by "CO2".
Well... if the sun were not there, global warming would not be an issue. I'll grant you that.
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And when the Sun dies, we can all blame the Oracle.
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I'd like to know if there was any more evidence for this:
http://www.thesunisiron.com/
http://www.thesurfaceofthesun.com/
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_sol01.htm
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/sun.htm
http://www.electricuniverse.info/Electric_Sun_theory
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Go here and you can view animations of the sun using all the different telescopes on SDO...
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/aiahmi/rangeform.php
Instructions to view the subject solar flare: select browse by date range, enter 2011-06-07 00:00:00 as the beginning and 2011-06-07 12:00:00 as the end dates, select movie as the display, select resolution 1024x1024, and set nth = 1, submit and enjoy. Also, you can play with the different telescopes.
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What would the impact have been on Earth if this had been pointing directly towards us? Would it have been on the scale of the Carrington event?
So many of the quacks trying to push their perpetual motion machines claim they are harnessing the "power of magnetism", at which point the experts swoop in and point out you can't extract energy from a magnet.
Magnetic energy is real.
This may seem like a minor quibble, but in fact you can definitely extract energy from a magnet. Just let it attract a magnetically attractable object (iron ball), and harness the force it exerts on that object over a distance while it "falls" into the magnet. Work is just the integral of the dot product of force times distance, integrated over distance, and energy is the ability of a physical system (the magnet) to do work on another physical system (a magnetically attractable object).
It's not perpetual motion, because you have to exert a like amount of work externally to pry the object away again before you can repeat the process, but it is energy being released.
There are still radio broadcasts from the dayside, so we're OK this time.
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Gamma rays travel at the speed of light.
You mean the way all electromagnetic radiation does? Wow, crazy!
We wouldn't see it coming. There might be one hitting the edge of the atmosphere right now.
Too late to use those mod points...
Hrm ....
3 ... 2 ... 1 ....
Nope, still here! Guess Australia took one for the team.
There might be one hitting the edge of the atmosphere right now.
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My preparations include making sure I remember to go look outside at night over the next few days. I live on the MA/CT line, and I've only ever seen the aurora once or twice in my life this far South... both times due to massive CMEs.
I'll be on the lookout and have my camera and tripod standing by this time.
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If you look at the proton monitors in L1 http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ace/SIS_24h.html and earth geosynchronous http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/Proton.gif orbit there is a very suggestive correlation between this flare and a flux of high energy protons! The timing is about right and the flare itself is positioned such that the parker spiral http://spaceweather.uma.es/solarstorms_files/figura1bc.JPG of the interplanetary magnetic field http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2434rAbImf0 would put earth in sun spot 1226's path http://i.imgur.com/ZIffl.gif. This tight coupling of timing between the flare time (~06:30:00) and proton arrival (07:00:00) suggests not a coronal mass ejection (that takes days) but instead of weakly relativistic particle beam traveling down the magnetic field lines to earth in only tens of minutes. This interpetation is confirmed by the UMA automatic solar energetic particle forcaster http://spaceweather.uma.es/forecastpanel.htm and later in the day mentioned by a press release http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-unusual-solar-storm-disrupt-earth.html.
I've heard that actually, you can detect gamma ray bursts from other galaxies before the electromagnetic radiation reaches earth.
Because the refractive index of space is not exactly unity (because of gas), the neutrino shower typically
reaches us before the EM burst.
This mechanism supposedly gives us enough time to point our sattelites/telescopes at the event to see it.
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What would happen if that explosion was pointed directly at the Earth?
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In other words, the sun farted.
And it was a whopper.
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Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!
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Would the thickness of the Earth serve as a shield for life on the 'lucky' half of the earth?
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Not really, because a certain amount of energy would just pass through the Earth - but the real damage would be that all that energy would (long story involving splitting atmospheric gases cut short) blow the ozone layer on the affected side away, leaving the rest to spread out in a layer half as thick. We'd get lots more UVs and have lovely tans, briefly.
In space, no one can here the kaboom?
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