Unexplained Explosion on the Sun (breaking news), page 2

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reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 07:35 AM by Chadwickus

Originally posted by watcher73
Source is the sun. /thread

Oh...I was wondering what that big round thing was.

I guess that settles it then.

/sarcasm

reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 07:41 AM by Ophiuchus 13

The Star seems always busy??? Anyone know which planet that is up at the left hand side?

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reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 08:09 AM by randyvs

Good lookin' out indeed Chadwickas.
Not exactly a professional anotation but it comes with an SnF.
Does venus always look like that? It looks huge and well, I won't say it.

Dark Ghost

Are there beings stupid enough to declare war on the sun?

You mean including us?

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reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 08:13 AM by Gigantea Rosa

While searching for some information I was cross-linked back to ATS and stumbled across this thread here: (www.abovetopsecret.com...)

It basically states a comet that passed close to the sun and the date that it was posted was on January 1st. So depending on how fast the comet has moved could it still have been in the region near the sun to have caused this?

reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 08:40 AM by DevolutionEvolvd

Though traditional scientists claim it to be a coincidence, comets seem to have an effect on solar activity. Electric models of comets and stars provide an easy to understand explanation for such observations.

....of course, we all know how controversial electric models of the universe are.

In any case, based simply on observations, it wouldn't surprise me if a comet were to be creeping around......sneaky little snowballs.

-Dev

reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 08:44 AM by booda

is this quite usual

sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

Says CCD Bakeout stamped on the jpegs...

reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 08:46 AM by serenecalamityz

reply to post by booda

It has been like that since Sunday evening, I have no idea what it means but Im really glad you bought it up. Peace

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reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 08:49 AM by booda

Heres more info about Bakeout...

What's a bakeout? In order to (i) keep read noise down (suppress the "snow") and (ii) prevent cosmic ray hits from permanently raising the read noise level by damaging the detector, the EIT CCD is usually operated at a temperature of about -67 C. This temperature is achieved by passive cooling: the CCD chip is thermally contacted to a titanium "cold finger" (at far left in the image above) that is attached to a radiator plate that is pointed at a piece of sky perpendicular to the earth-Sun line. Unfortunately, there's a small amount of "slush," probably a mixture of water vapor and hydrocarbons, that avoided the initial bakeout (just after launch) of the instrument. The back end of the EIT telescope, unfortunately, is a difficult place from which to escape, because of the plate holding the final, thin aluminum filter just in front of the CCD, and a labyrinthine venting system (designed to prevent stray light). At -67 C, even with the low partial pressure in space, the slush condenses on the CCD and the cold finger --- they're the coldest parts of the back end of the instrument. The slush absorbs some EUV, and so reduces the thoughput of the instrument. In addition, overexposure to EUV (say, from bright flares or --- before the onboard software was fixed to prevent this --- accidentally long exposures) can produce electron traps in the CCD material, which reduce the detector's throughput (how many electrons it produces for a given number of photons striking a pixel). Thus, we need to warm up --- "bake out" --- the detector to evaporate the slush (if only temporarily) and anneal out the traps in order to maintain the performance of the instrument.

Source

reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 08:49 AM by Ophiuchus 13

Guess the Star is busy again lol. Man how cool it would be to o.b. telept. and see how it is doing

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reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 08:51 AM by operation mindcrime

reply to post by booda

Never mind....

Why post questions in a thread and then answer them yourself? It's like some weird digital-Schizophrenia you have going on there..

Peace

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reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 08:57 AM by Box of Rain

Nice video, Chadwickus

However "unexplained" may be a bit misleading. The probable explanation for what this is is that it's a coronal mass ejection (CME) -- i.e., it looks just like any other CME (which are very common). The "unexplained" part is the exact spot on the Sun that the CME came from.

I think when that part of Sun rotates into view -- or when SOHO's orbit moves it around to that part of the Sun -- scientists may see the place of origin for that CME. It isn't rare for a visible CME to emanate from a part of the Sun that is not visible to SOHO.

I understand what you meant by "unexplained", but it seems others are assuming by the thread title that scientists have no idea what this is. That would be a wrong assumption.

Here are videos of other CMEs:

upload.wikimedia.org...
sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

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reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 08:57 AM by assbarman

I dont know what it is but what the hell ... is that The Borg ?

* to be taken as a joke

reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 09:06 AM by Chadwickus

reply to post by Box of Rain

We know it's a CME.

The article states the source of the CME is unknown, So I dunno how the title is misleading, maybe a bit attention grabbing, but not misleading.

I don't do misleading.

reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 09:23 AM by Box of Rain

Originally posted by Chadwickus
reply to post by Box of Rain

We know it's a CME.

The article states the source of the CME is unknown, So I dunno how the title is misleading, maybe a bit attention grabbing, but not misleading.

I don't do misleading.

"Not misleading but 'attention grabbing' "...Okay, I'll buy that.

Well, you grabbed some peoples attention who are offering up their theories as to "what that mysterious explosion was".

I know you did not deliberately mislead, but there are people who took the title to mean "no one knows what the explosion was". It would be like describing the noise of an unseen dog barking in the night as "an unexplained sound".

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reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 09:28 AM by zerotime

It is obvious that the US government had something to do with this explosion. Probably testing a new space weapon. Or maybe it was Haarp.

reply posted on 2-2-2010 @ 09:29 AM by hotbakedtater

reply to post by Chadwickus

Ah! How curious!

Last night about the time of this explosion, my son called me. In the course of the conversation he griped about his XBox Live not working right.

I explained to him we would be experiencing more coronal bursts and solar activity the next few years, so that might be the reason his XBox Live was on the fritz.

I love synchronicity!

I will have to let him know now, ONCE AGAIN, Momma's right, son.

Edit to add:

Wow, lots of smart alecs on this thread.