WTF is that on the sun?

[TrogL]

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/realtime-m...




That's gotta be the size of Jupiter.

[shoelace414]

1. perhaps if we went there in winter when it's cooler.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Or At Night!

That would work too!
The Professor

[mrboba1]

2. AAck! Blackheads!

Get the Oxy-Clear!

[mom cat]

10. Those are huge zits!

[Scooter24]

3. Maybe

a bug on the lense?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. Possibly a sun spot?

Or it's an asteroid. Can't tell. I could send it to my Astronomy teacher to ask. But I'm too lazy. I'm going to guess it's something being pulled into the sun.
Duckie

[Connie_Corleone]

5. Isn't a huge solar flare

supposed to hit earth and kill us or something soon?

Something I heard on CoasttoCoast AM.

[TrogL]

6. THAT solar flare is the little one in the centre

The monster in the corner just showed up and it's twice the size.

[Frodo]

7. Solar activity is supposedly at recorded highs.

The Sun is apperently going through a very active phase.

[jus_the_facts]

11. It's acually beyond it's normal 11year phase......

....these spots and CME's lately are anomolies!

[Frodo]

14. Sorry, I wasn't clear

I meant that scientists are saying that current activity is hitting some record highs. Well outside of the normal fluctuation.

Apperently, it's been on the rise for a few decades now.

[jus_the_facts]

16. Yep...that's the way I've understood it......

.....fascinatin' stuff!!

[Frodo]

18. Yeah, but it's being used by the right to discuss global warming.

It woud seem (they argue) taht the SUN may actually effect temperatures here on Earth.

yourself.

[jus_the_facts]

20. D'OH......

.....where'd they ever get such an idear!

[Kurt Remarque]

8. weapons of mass destruction! prepare to invade the sun!

[tridim]

9. It's where monoliths are born

I assume you're referring to the black "dot"? It just looks like a sunspot.

I love those soho mpegs. I'm basically obsessed with watching them weekly. There's nothing quite as beautiful as when the sun farts.

[DrWeird]

12. Umm, sunspots?

But I could be wrong, sunspots aren't ever well understood. I mean, we've only known about them for the past 400 years or so.

[Bonhomme Richard]

13. I'll go up there tonight when it's turned off and................

check it out.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

15. In what I would say is coincidence, I found this story:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/solarscience-04r.html
Apparently something similar to Snow in July in LA just happened on the Sun. Interesting Article.
Duckie

[Wilber_Stool]

17. Find out here.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

[MikeG]

21. Hey Sun, they're called "Skin Care Products". Get Some.

[lumpy]

22. If you really want to know

National Geographic has an extensive article (July,2004 issue) about this very thing.