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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on December 06, 2008, 04:59:15 PM

Title: sun
Post by: Plane on December 06, 2008, 04:59:15 PM

MONSTER PROMINENCE: Readers, if you have a solar telescope, train it on the edge of the sun. An enormous filament of plasma is swirling over the eastern limb. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) took this picture just hours ago:

http://spaceweather.com/ (http://spaceweather.com/)


This plasma-filled filament of magnetism popped up yesterday and it could collapse again just as rapidly. When a filament abruptly collapses and hits the sun's surface, it can produce a rare type of explosion called a "Hyder flare." Could one be in the offing? Stay tuned!

Title: Re: sun
Post by: BSB on December 06, 2008, 05:07:02 PM

Same church, different pew.

Astronomy Picture of the Day.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html)

Title: Re: sun
Post by: Cynthia on December 06, 2008, 11:50:50 PM

Quote from: BSB on December 06, 2008, 05:07:02 PM

Same church, different pew.

Astronomy Picture of the Day.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html)

Beautiful!

Title: Re: sun
Post by: Plane on December 07, 2008, 12:07:27 AM

Good site BsB





(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0811/earthmoon_nasa_big.png)