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This solar eruption video will straight up melt your face it's so awesome
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| 7 June 2012
| Robert T. Gonzalez
Posted on 07/19/2013 6:21:23 PM PDT by Windflier
Damn. We've seen us some solar eruption videos in our day, but this here's a sight to behold.
We've got some incredible photo and video for you here, so pay attention you don't want to miss any of this.
Up top you'll find some downright gorgeous footage of a coronal mass ejection (a roiling whip of plasma, hurled from an active region on the Sun). It was shot by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory during an intense solar storm on August 31.
Down below we've featured a series of still images from the explosion, and first up is one that should help you put the size of this eruption into perspective.
This "long filament of solar material," as NASA calls it, was spotted tearing away from the Sun at upwards of 900 miles per second. Yes, per second; this CME, as is typical of super-hot plasma filaments that are flung from the sun, was hauling serious ass. It was also freaking enormous plenty big enough to wrap itself around the Earth a few times not to mention a few other planets and still have some plasma left over:
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: carringtonevent; catastrophism; cme; coronalmassejection; maunderminimum; solar; solarflares; space; sun
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Dated, but awesome video of a coronal mass ejection.
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:21:23 PM PDT
by
Windflier
To: Windflier
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:22:44 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Get our troops the hell out of the ME)
To: Windflier
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:24:13 PM PDT
by
lurk
To: doc1019
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:24:35 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: doc1019
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:24:56 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it. Their minds are diseased.)
To: doc1019
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:26:03 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Windflier
Looks like it's one of those “Shields up Mr. Worf” suckers :)
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:28:38 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
To: doc1019
Did we survive? Dunno....are we logged in?
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:31:39 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: The Cajun
Looks like it's one of those Shields up Mr. Worf suckers :) Definitely. What's really amazing is the size of that thing. Like they said, it was big enough to wrap itself around several planets with a few million miles of gas to spare.
And liberals think man controls the climate on this mud ball...
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:35:19 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: doc1019
If you look at the photo, it went over top of us....
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:35:20 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Oh, Noes!)
To: Windflier
Wow, that picture will cause Algore to call room service in a towel.
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:35:21 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: Windflier
No wonder it’s hot in the east.
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:37:15 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: SkyDancer
No wonder its hot in the east. That video makes me glad to be in Texas, where it's only in the mid nineties every day :-)
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:39:29 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:45:20 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention)
To: Windflier
Yow.
That hits us, bye bye with just a few minutes’ warning.
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:46:56 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
To: ctdonath2
Yow. That hits us, bye bye with just a few minutes warning. Yep. It's amazing that the human race has lasted as long as it has in such a dangerous neighborhood.
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:49:28 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Excellent. The tagline too.
To: Windflier
Try our outback here mate in the summer. What you have we call winter.
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:54:25 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: Windflier
And liberals think man controls the climate on this mud ball... You come right down to it, what ever happens on Earth climate wise, naturally or man caused, is a very distant second to what the sun can do and does everyday, 24/7.
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posted on
07/19/2013 6:59:10 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
To: Windflier
I pity the planet that’s in the line of that CME!
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posted on
07/19/2013 7:07:31 PM PDT
by
bigbob
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