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Whoa, Man. Like, the Sun
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
5:18:00 AM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace. And sometimes it burps, causing huge solar flares, much larger than our own puny world, which fly off the sun and then loop back toward it. The burps... are pretty:
See? Pretty.
If you want to check out what the sun's doing at the moment, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory has near real-time images. Be warned, however, that at this particular moment, the sun's not doing much of anything. We're at a solar minimum. The sun is just sitting there... waiting.
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5:18:00 AM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Whoa, Man. Like, the Sun
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace. And sometimes it burps, causing huge solar flares, much larger than our own puny world, which fly off the sun and then loop back toward it. The burps... are pretty:
See? Pretty.
If you want to check out what the sun's doing at the moment, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory has near real-time images. Be warned, however, that at this particular moment, the sun's not doing much of anything. We're at a solar minimum. The sun is just sitting there... waiting.
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Kinda feels like I'm trippin' here...but I mean that in a good way!
Nancy -
The cool part about living on the sun is that you can make toast just by holding it out the window for like .000000000000000000000005 seconds.
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You've touched my inner geek. It's exciting in a scary, "how bad can it get" type way that this next maximum is supposed to be the maximumest maximum in a very long time. Or it might not be. Scientists can't agree.
Oh, and the music in the video creeps me out. FYI.
4/18/07 12:27 AM
natalie