Breathtaking New Images of the SUN

These unbelievable new images are from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
You guys need to check this out in 1080p,Just incredible.I have never seen such detail of Coronal Mass Ejection.The amount of energy ejected into space and seems to get sucked back into core of the sun.
Stunning.

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Awesome. This one is linked off of yours. Equally amazing.

Breathtaking is the word for it. I like how it's exploding stuff outwards then sucking back in again. Almost like it's breathing. It's definitely alive.

I like the music too.

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Alive is a good description, no wonder the sun was worshiped as a God.
I feel privileged to be alive at a time to witness such amazing technology.

Originally posted by flyingfish
The amount of energy ejected into space and seems to get sucked back into core of the sun.
Stunning.

Is that a sentence? I don't think so, I'm not sure what you were trying to say.

But the amount of energy in that explosion could be as much as 1000 trillion bombs the size of the one at Hiroshima, or more, possibly a lot more.

One thing the video doesn't say, is the timescale. It looks like the time scale is probably compressed, but I don't know by how much. I suspect it takes a lot longer than is shown in the video for that event to occur in real time, but since I didn't see it live I can't say for sure.

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Is that a sentence? I don't think so, I'm not sure what you were trying to say.

I'm explaining what I see.
If you can't understand that's your problem I don't need your smart azz grammar comment.

Come on, don't get all heated up over a discussion of awesome solar photography, just enjoy,
People are here to learn. Smart alecs will be cast into the oort cloud.

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This was certainly among the largest prominence eruptions seen by either the STEREO or SOHO missions. The length of the prominence appears to stretch almost halfway across the sun, about 500,000 miles. Prominences are cooler clouds of plasma that hover above the Sun’s surface, tethered by magnetic forces. They are notoriously unstable and commonly erupt as this one did in a dramatic fashion. The video clip shows about 19 hours of activity.

From the STEREO site.

Originally posted by flyingfish
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Alive is a good description, no wonder the sun was worshiped as a God.
I feel privileged to be alive at a time to witness such amazing technology.

pretty sure the ancients had HD as well.

just being able to prove it thats the issue

There is already a thread about this..

Dark Sun! A dark unknown material emission from the sun