Solar Eruption Today!

[n2doc]

The Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) project satellite captured this dazzling, hypnotic footage of a solar eruption yesterday.

SOHO is a joint effort between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA; its purpose, besides capturing incredible images like the one above, is "to study the internal structure of the Sun, its extensive outer atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind, the stream of highly ionized gas that blows continuously outward through the Solar System."

http://io9.com/stare-in-awe-at-this-fiery-footage-of-a-solar-eruption-1687310302

[alfredo]

1. Beautiful.

[Treant]

2. Too much Mexican food, clearly.

[alfredo]

3. No, the Blooming Onion at Outback.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. The sun will blame it on Pluto.

Always, it's the dog's fault.

[Android3.14]

4. Is that Greenwich time?

There was a super solar filament a week or so ago. I wonder if that collapsed to trigger this explosion. There's some chatter about it being a Cavendish event, but I cannot find any information regarding the energies involved in this event.

It looks big, though.

[NBachers]

5. And all it took was a few seconds. The distance traversed in those few seconds must be enormous.

[Silent3]

7. The timestamp on that animated GIF is in hours and minutes

The speed is still, of course, very fast by human standards, but not so fast as you might think seeing an animation which is compressing about eight hours into around four seconds.

[NBachers]

8. Oh, OK- thanks for straightening that out. Huge and impressive still

[isitreal]

9. good link

here is a great site for more sun weather
http://spaceweather.com/

[allan01]

10. report from sidc (

http://sidc.oma.be/
anyways , a major BURP!