Originally posted by questioningall
You know what???
from this site: stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov...
(instructions are on previous page, to see, sequence)

I watched the sequence again, wow, Jupiter "really" did have some "major" explosions!

I watched how the radiation field from it, just kept going and going.

Very interesting.....

Has this ever happened before with Jupiter (the explosions, like that)?

[edit on 15-2-2009 by questioningall]

Tuesday, February 17, 2009.

It'll be possible to spot all five visible planets tonight.

You'll need to look outside just after sunset to see Venus, by far the brightest of these five worlds. If you do look shortly after the sun goes down, Venus is easily seen in the west. An hour or two after sunset, Saturn will shine in the east. Saturn is no where near as bright as Venus, but it shines as brilliantly as a bright star, with a steadier light than the stars.

The other three planets - Mercury, Mars and Jupiter - won't climb into the sky until the wee hours before sunrise. You'll have to be up at or before dawn to catch these morning planets. Throughout February, these wandering worlds will move with repect to each other in the eastern predawn sky. Tomorrow, Jupiter and Mars will pair up. A week from now, Jupiter will be closer to Mercury. By the month's end, Mercury will pair up with Mars.

How soon you see this trio of planets before sunrise will depend on where you live worldwide. In the southern hemisphere, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter will climb above the horizon when it's still dark - before morning twilight starts to color the sky. In the northern hemisphere, this planetary threesome will be somewhat obscured in the glow of dawn.

Jupiter will be the brightest of these three planets, and it will be the easiest of the three planets to pick out against the twilight background. After Jupiter, Mercury will be the second-easiest planet to spot. Will faint Mars be visible? It's possible, but you might need binoculars to spot it.

Originally posted by rachel07
I came across the plans that they plan to ignite Saturn. So if Saturn can be ignited, in theory so can Jupiter. You will see that they plan to use nuclear generators.

There's no chance Saturn could sustain nuclear fusion?

Sorry, no. Saturn is simply too small.

Implying that a nuclear (fission) bomb detonating inside Saturn could create the conditions for a nuclear fusion chain reaction (like the proton-proton chain) is, again, in the realms of science fiction. Even the larger gas giant Jupiter is far too puny to sustain fusion.

Several instruments on STEREO (Behind) observed the progress of a good-sized coronal mass ejection (CME) as it blasted out from the sun and into space (Jan. 21-25, 2009).

The burst of particles was first spotted late on Jan. 21 by the COR2 coronagraph as a bulbous cloud with a bright core, which expanded to the right. With its broad field of view to the right of the sun the HI1 instrument picked up the cloud early on Jan. 22 and watched it expand even further over the next two days. (The very bright object to the right of the middle is Venus.) Lastly, the HI2 imager (see video) tracked the much fainter CME cloud as it crossed millions of miles of space and continued to expand further through Jan. 25. The CME did not appear to generate any effects here on Earth, but the CME was detected by the other STEREO spacecraft (Ahead) as it passed by.

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The planet Jupiter has been known since ancient times. It is visible to the naked eye in the night sky and can occasionally be seen in the daytime when the sun is low.[98] To the Babylonians, this object represented their god Marduk. They used the roughly 12-year orbit of this planet along the ecliptic to define the constellations of their zodiac.[19][99]

The Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese referred to the planet as the wood star, 木星,[102] based on the Chinese Five Elements. The Greeks called it Φαέθων, Phaethon, "blazing". In Vedic Astrology, Hindu astrologers named the planet after Brihaspati, the religious teacher of the gods, and often called it "Guru," which literally means the "Heavy One".[103] In the English language Thursday is rendered as Thor's day, with Thor being associated with the planet Jupiter in Germanic mythology.[104]

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Marduk (Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR.UTU 𒀫𒌓 "solar calf"; perhaps from MERI.DUG; Biblical Hebrew מְרֹדַךְ Merodach; Greek Μαρδοχαῖος[1], Mardochaios) was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon permanently became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century BC), started to slowly rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BC.

Nibiru, to the Babylonians, was the celestial body or region sometimes associated with the god Marduk.

Marduk was depicted as a human, often with his symbol the snake-dragon which he had taken over from the god Tishpak. Another symbol that stood for Marduk was the spade.

To the Babylonians, Nibiru was the celestial body or region sometimes associated with the god Marduk. The word is Akkadian and the meaning is uncertain. Because of this, the hypothetical planet Nibiru is sometimes also referred to as Marduk.