Posted on 03/05/2016 11:51:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: One of the most spectacular solar sights is an erupting prominence. In 2011, NASA's Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft imaged an impressively large prominence erupting from the surface. The dramatic explosion was captured in ultraviolet light in the above time lapse video covering 90 minutes, where a new frame was taken every 24 seconds. The scale of the prominence is huge -- the entire Earth would easily fit under the flowing curtain of hot gas. A solar prominence is channeled and sometimes held above the Sun's surface by the Sun's magnetic field. A quiescent prominence typically lasts about a month, and may erupt in a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) expelling hot gas into the Solar System. The energy mechanism that creates a solar prominence is still a topic of research. As the Sun passes Solar Maximum, solar activity like eruptive prominences are expected to become less common over the next few years.
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[Video Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO AIA Team]
The Fires of Hell!
Stoking for hillary?
Thank you for the post and ping, Mr. Civilizations.
And thank you as well for the nice, clean Big One.
It’s amazing!
Thank you, ETL, for the perspective image showing
the size of the Earth in comparison to the solar
prominence eruption.
;’) Yeah, there’s, uh, no, I won’t say it. ;’)
You’re welcome. It is amazing how tiny the earth is in comparison to the sun. They say you can put 1.3 million earths inside the sun.
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Radius, diameter & circumference
The sun is nearly a perfect sphere. Its equatorial diameter and its polar diameter differ by only 6.2 miles. The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles, which makes its diameter about 864,938 miles. You could line up 109 Earths across the face of the sun. The sun’s circumference is about 2,713,406 miles.
Mass and volume
The total volume of the sun is 1.4 x 1027 cubic meters. About 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun. The mass of the sun is about 333,000 times the mass of the Earth. The sun contains 99.8 percent of the mass of the entire solar system, leading astronomers Imke de Pater and Jack J. Lissauer, authors of the textbook “Planetary Sciences,” to refer to the solar system as “the sun plus some debris.”
http://www.space.com/17001-how-big-is-the-sun-size-of-the-sun.html
Thank you again for all this intriguing information.
The Sun plus some debris, indeed. ;-)
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