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Comet-Sun Impact Caught On Video
jomegat writes "NASA has released footage captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) showing a comet slamming into the surface of the sun. The impact created a huge splash as seen on the video, but the impact at the surface was blocked by an occluding disk that allows the SDO to image the sun's corona. It's still very impressive though!"
Something interesting, scientific, and one no one can uselessly argue about :D
Feels fresh slashdot!
oh gawd, I was wrong! lol
The "huge splash" is an unrelated coronal mass ejection. There is no actual splash, or "collision" in the sense we would imagine it. Which should be obvious when you stop to think about it, because the Sun is really freaking hot. The comet evaporated when it got too close.
Still, a pretty cool video. It's always cool to see how tiny things look when they get close to the Sun. In the first video, you'll probably have to watch it a few times before you even notice the comet.
Also get rid of jomegat for writing the completely wrong and hyped-up headline and story.
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
So let this be a lesson to you. Don't challenge scientists (real or wannabe) by saying that they can't find a way to disagree. Scientists are experts at disagreeing with each other; it's a basic part of what they do. Any competent scientist can come up with several incompatible "explanations" of any phenomenon. (The important part is that they can also apply for grants to test all the explanations. ;-)
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
When I follow that link and try to download the video, I get a message saying "The player cannot load the requested video. The player does not have permission. Message ID: UVP05004".
This is with several different browsers (FF, Safari, Opera) on my Macbook Pro. Anyone know how to make it work?
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
The article makes no mention of a surface impact. Just that the comet passes so close to the sun that it evaporates.
The comet crashed, it's all Obama's fault! :D
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There's a little black spot on the sun today.
It's the same old thing as yesterday.
Oh great now I am going to be depressed all weekend...
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Are there any images of this from SOHO or any other Sun inspecting satellites?
The closest thing I've seen to a 'splash' was during the June 7th CME, where a significant amount of the eruption didn't escape the sun's gravity:
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/potw.php?v=item&id=54
For the comet, though ... no splash. And they haven't finished the final processing of the last bit of the comet's track across the sun, so I haven't seen it 'evaporate' as others have mentioned.
(Disclaimer: I'm not a solar physicist, but I work for the Solar Data Analysis Center, and on the distribution systems for SDO data)
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
See?! It's global warming!
That's not related to climates!
The TSA would have never prevented a comet from killing Americans!
We wouldn't have known about it without waterboarding or wiretaps!
News of the World is just trying to fabricate "news" again.
Don't let the sun splash on me...
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Don't they know the little red light means the camera is on?
Sorry that science isn't like some Matrix film. Maybe they can do a bullet time effect on the next one to keep fucktards like you interested, you fucking cunt.
Where can I just get a live feed of the SOHO coronograph camera?
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits
Even an abstract geometrical solid such as a cylinder or a tetrahedron has a "surface"; I don't see why the Sun can't also.
And there is more where that came from!
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Fatality. Sun wins.
The term "surface" when used in relation to the Sun is used to mean the place from which the majority of photons we see are emitted; known as the photosphere. That surface is defined to be at optical depth 2/3 (a photon, on average, escapes without scattering off a particle). It is a fuzzy boundary, varying in depth with wavelength of light, but it is a small range in comparison to the size of a star.
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
We learned in Final Fantasy 7 that a comet impacting the sun would cause a supernova. Which I assure you we would have noticed.
the impact at the surface was blocked by an occluding disk
Damn. The alien spacecraft ejected and escaped before impact. Now we'll never find them.
Professor Paul Reiter is an example of people who had to threaten to sue the IPCC for claiming that he agrees with their claims. That's the only way he managed to get off the list. His 'contribution' to the IPCC report was that warming is unlikely to lead to the spread of malaria to northern regions. They ignored his report but still listed him as one agreeing to their claim that malaria *would* move north until he finally managed to get his name removed.
Mind the frickin' laser...
SOHO is at L1, and they don't have a space weather stream like STEREO or SDO (well, SDO's in geosyncronous orbit, and has its own ground stations, so it all comes down in near real time)
But you can get the most recent LASCO images from the SOHO website:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
Anyone notice how large that comet was? Earth sized? 100 earth stretch across the suns surface.
Jack of all trades,master of none
what happens when a comet hits the sun dead on, are there repercussions that can be felt everywhere, extra solar sprays etc...that would maybe affect us here on earth???