Watch: FIRE-SPITTING time-lapse images of Sol showcase NASA's sun-gazing highs NASA has released an impressive time-lapse vid of our sun, to mark five years since the US space agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) project began. The video shows off the highlights of NASA boffins gazing at old Sol. NASA said in a back-slapping post to celebrate SDO's fifth anniversary: Capturing an image more than …
What always get me is how we're programmed to recognise "ballistic", i.e. Newtonian, trajectories. But these solar surface dynamics are driven by magnetic fields, so they look different - i.e. "wrong" - to our eyees. Sometimes they look as if they're playing backwards, for example. All very weird, but very beautiful.
Is that Mercury we see transitting a couple of times?
Cherry is the colour of demagnetise
In the morning when we rise
Glue is the cover of the sparkling sky
According to Newton
(Forget Einstein)
In the morning
In the morning when we rise
Flares are the feeling I've been solar pup
That it's time
That it's time
That it's time to try again.
Solar surface dynamics are driven by magnetic fields,
They are what?
At those temperatures?
At those temperatures?
Are they f++k!
The sun almost always provides a lot of fireworks. It must have been difficult to select the best bits
You can actually sample the solar dynamics from down here: this shot was taken from the pavement across the road from my house (74 pane mosaic). However, whenever UK (or Dutch in my case) weather conspires against that (i.e. a lot of the time) it is lovely to visit NASAs sites which provide many such image (some like GONG H-alpha nearly at real time).
The transits seem to be Venus, judging by the size of the disk
"What is really spitting from the sun is NOT fire but nuclear reaction which is not the same thing at all, the sun is converting Hydrogen in Helium"
It's not fire, but would it constitute a "flame"?
Fire is the result of chemical combustion, while flames are the glowing product of a highly exothermic reaction. According to the wiki definition, very hot flames "are hot enough to have ionized gaseous components of sufficient density to be considered plasma."
These NASA guys should get an Oscar for cinematography... and editing.
I now want a new career... though a 43-year old computer scientist with a measly Bachelor's Degree and 20+ years experience in business computing... may not really be what NASA is looking for.
David.
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