Science Massive solar explosion

[Lamp]

Monster Prominence Erupts from Sun

Mods: pls add a SCIENCE prefix

 

[Calaen]

That is fucking epic

 

[old.Tohtori]

Yeah saw that earlier and it's a nifty "little" explosion

The wave probably hits tomorrow right?

Could have a few nice aurora going.

 

[Corran]

Yeah saw that earlier and it's a nifty "little" explosion

The wave probably hits tomorrow right?

Could have a few nice aurora going.

7pm UK time tonight apparently.. so in a couple hours.

Seems a little early to me, but im no scientist

 

[Job]

Is that the biggest ever seen?
And is it in real time, I mean those bits that fell back must have been travelling some speed to cross half the sun.

 

[Lamp]

While we're on the subject of science, check out Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object | Video on TED.com

 

[ileks]

If we have seen it why will the wave be hitting us later?

 

[Lamp]

because the sun is 93 million miles from earth

 

[georgie]

Just like any other explosion really, you see it first and feel or hear it later. Just cos it's so far away the time those things take to happen are longer.

 

[Deebs]

If we have seen it why will the wave be hitting us later?

Light travels faster than anything else we know of.... Hence you see lightening before you hear the thunder. (light faster than sound)

 

[Lamp]

also explains why you feel a woman's anger as soon as you walk into the room long before you hear the banshee shriek

 

[Shagrat]

women are composed of anti-matter, which behaves in ways that science cannot currently explain

 

[chipper]

Massive Coronal Mass Ejection on June 7, 2011 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!


this tbh makes you feel a wee bit small the blue circle is representing earth

 

[Scouse]

also explains why you feel a woman's anger as soon as you walk into the room long before you hear the banshee shriek

Genie-ooz

 

[Zenith.UK]

Is that the biggest ever seen?
And is it in real time, I mean those bits that fell back must have been travelling some speed to cross half the sun.

Not the largest by a long shot.
Solar flares are rated classes A, B, C, M and X, with each class being 10x more powerful than the previous class. Once you get to X class, each number is twice as powerful as the previous one.

The flare in those videos was M2.

The most powerful flare of recent years was in November 2003. It was so powerful it temporarily blinded the CCDs on satellites watching. It has been rated AT LEAST X28, and possibly as high as X45.
SOHO Hotshots
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Solar flare confirmed as biggest

 

[Ctuchik]

Massive Coronal Mass Ejection on June 7, 2011 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!


this tbh makes you feel a wee bit small the blue circle is representing earth

Now that's the way to die...

Fuck you WW3!

 

[ileks]

because the sun is 93 million miles from earth

By wave i thought they meant some sort of E.M wave which would also travel at light speed! so should arrive when we see it. But the things hitting us later are high energy protons etc

 

[ilaya]

oh ffs dont say Flares are back...

 

[Zenith.UK]

oh ffs dont say Flares are back...

B'dum tish!
The thing is that as far as the Sun is concerned, flares ARE back. It's approaching a period of enhanced activity as the peak of it's 11 year cycle.

 

[Job]

Didn't notice a thing, except the dog's started reading the Telegraph.

 

[Lamp]

^ lol