Cristian
Wonder of ScienceLoops of superheated plasma larger than the Earth dancing across the Sun, recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.
Credit: SDO/NASA Goddard
Further reading: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/coronal-rain.html
Ken Exline@wonderofscience WOW! Thank you for sharing
Jesse Cail@wonderofscience The "Earth to scale" is simultaneously amazing and frightening.
Rick@jesse_cail @wonderofscience The 1:1000 scale model of the Starship Enterprise is just ridiculous. (Yes, someone is actually selling such a thing.)
Yingtai@wonderofscience wow, if only Milton and Dante had seen this! They'd have been in ecstasy describing the beauty of hellfire!
Matthias Bohlen@wonderofscience Wow, this is totally amazing.
Bitel
Lockpick Extreme@wonderofscience I use this as a Zoom background and am compelled to tell everyone about coronal rain.
SuzVideo of the roiling, glowing hot orange surface of the sun with plasma bursting up from and falling in a loop pattern back into the surface. A dot representing the Earth is superimposed on the image to show how relatively tiny it is compared to the size of large plasma formation. #AltText #AltText4You
@sbtan Thank you, I've added your description.
@wonderofscience You’re welcome! That video is amazing, in the true sense of the word.
Rachel Maske
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Shannon@wonderofscience That is so cool.
BC253@wonderofscience
Do you think this would explain the trouble with GPS signals in Australia?
Do you think this would explain the trouble with GPS signals in Australia?
seismographixI try to imagine the sheer size of it. Like how would it be standing in front of it and looking at the super heated plasma shooting 80,000 miles into the space?
Menno@wonderofscience
What's the time scale on this?
This has to be accelerated, but I wonder by how much.
What's the time scale on this?
This has to be accelerated, but I wonder by how much.
Roby-Niais de Haut-Tiède@MennoWolff @wonderofscience From the orignal NASA link : "each second in this video corresponds to six minutes of real time"
Aviva Gary@wonderofscience so cool and pretty in a terrifying kind of way
Rai Aren 🖖✨📚🇺🇦
Patty Kimura@wonderofscience We have a mighty over-inflated sense of our importance, power, and scale, no? Our planet is tiny, and we tinier humans are but the proverbial dust in the solar winds.
Thank you for posting this.
Thank you for posting this.
Kevin Leecaster@pattykimura @wonderofscience
In the pantheon of famous selfies, this one is less than a pixel – and it is us.
The iconic photograph of planet Earth from distant space – the “pale blue dot” – was taken 30 years ago – Feb. 14, 1990, at a distance of 3.7 billion miles, by the NASA spacecraft Voyager 1 as it zipped toward the far edge of the solar system. The late Cornell astronomy professor Carl Sagan came up with the idea for the snapshot, and coined the phrase.
Troll@wonderofscience Scary! I’m almost turning to stone just looking at it.
Buster McNuttAre there quantum "forbidden zones" in magnetic field lines? Why are there discreet lines instead of a filled volume in this loop shape?
I probably knew at one time and forgot.
Steven Bodzin@wonderofscience the sun is lit
Andrew Benedict-Nelson@wonderofscience Certainly puts things in perspective