Amazing close-up video of the sun

[Markbnj]

This is a really mesmerizing collection of videos from the SDO mission. Extreme close-ups of the sun in action. It's amazing to watch and think of the scale and forces at play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAg4qXsk99c

Check out the diamond interference pattern on the surface beginning at 1:55. This recurs a few times in later segments, but not so distinctly. Not sure if this is an actual wave interference pattern like the diamond pattern in an afterburner exhaust stream, or an artifact of the sensing technology.

 

[darkewaffle]

Hella cool

 

[Jaskalas]

This is a really mesmerizing collection of videos from the SDO mission. Extreme close-ups of the sun in action. It's amazing to watch and think of the scale and forces at play.

If we tapped just a tiny micro fraction of that energy... we wouldn't need to burn CO2.

 

[Markbnj]

If we tapped just a tiny micro fraction of that energy... we wouldn't need to burn CO2.

Yes, well, the "tapping" is the tricky bit.

 

[natto fire]

If we tapped just a tiny micro fraction of that energy... we wouldn't need to burn CO2.

True, and people are working on it, but as it stands a diverse energy portfolio is necessary. I have been in more than a few discussions about electric heat being inefficient, but it stands to reason that most new energies are designed with electric transmission in mind. Transmission of energy is the most efficient via electromagnetism at this point.

So while a wood-burning central boiler can make a lot of economical sense, it is basically a dead end when most research is funneled to generating electricity.

 

[spidey07]

At 2:17 you see some kind of solar tornado/vortex

 

[natto fire]

OK

Nice edit, but it is kind of comical to think that the devout are interested in cutting edge science. No offense to you, by all means, sell people a fear of death in a pretty package. The fact remains that there are people here who are bypassing the bible to access science which can alleviate human suffering.

Nuclear fusion is definitely an advanced topic when compared to most basic science courses. It doesn't have to be BS, when reported, only compared to the receivers. Naturally, Fox News has to pander to morons, so they break things down to what a moron would understand.

Please PM me if you have any other questions regarding God, and the solar system.

 

[Mai72]

OK

Really? Why?

Will GOD clear a seat for me in heaven? ()

 

[SKORPI0]

NASA - Magnificent Eruption in Full HD 2:10

 

[WHAMPOM]

If we tapped just a tiny micro fraction of that energy... we wouldn't need to burn CO2.

Aside from geothermal and tidal power, everything we use is just a tiny remnant of collected Solar energy.

edit: don't shit me about atomic power, it took a sun going nova to create those heavy elements.

 

[MrPickins]

Aside from geothermal and tidal power, everything we use is just a tiny remnant of collected Solar energy.

edit: don't shit me about atomic power, it took a sun going nova to create those heavy elements.

This.

 

[Rakehellion]

This is a really mesmerizing collection of videos from the SDO mission. Extreme close-ups of the sun in action. It's amazing to watch and think of the scale and forces at play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAg4qXsk99c

Check out the diamond interference pattern on the surface beginning at 1:55. This recurs a few times in later segments, but not so distinctly. Not sure if this is an actual wave interference pattern like the diamond pattern in an afterburner exhaust stream, or an artifact of the sensing technology.

I'm not watching that, I'll go blind. Nice try!

 

[darkxshade]

I teared up

Do I have to turn in my man card?

 

[natto fire]

Aside from geothermal and tidal power, everything we use is just a tiny remnant of collected Solar energy.

edit: don't shit me about atomic power, it took a sun going nova to create those heavy elements.

But say we discovered a crude method of extracting the energy of previous generations, in which the sun was an afterthought? It is still there, but what of those peoples?

 

[Markbnj]

I'm not watching that, I'll go blind. Nice try!

You need to put a pinhole in a piece of cardboard, man.

 

[spidey07]

You need to put a pinhole in a piece of cardboard, man.

Grew up in the 70s. It was a cardboard tube with aluminum foil. The foil had the pinhole.

I can't even imagine the forces at work in that video. The weak force ain't so weak now is it.

 

[Markbnj]

Grew up in the 70s. It was a cardboard tube with aluminum foil. The foil had the pinhole.

I can't even imagine the forces at work in that video. The weak force ain't so weak now is it.

Yeah, we lack words. "Titanic" just doesn't seem to cover it. Those swirling jets of matter are in many cases hundreds or thousands of earth diameters across. Amazing. Even more amazing that we have a little machine out there photographing it all in detail.

 

[spidey07]

Yeah, we lack words. "Titanic" just doesn't seem to cover it. Those swirling jets of matter are in many cases hundreds or thousands of earth diameters across. Amazing. Even more amazing that we have a little machine out there photographing it all in detail.

Are you sure that's matter being thrown out?

It doesn't get pulled back in.

 

[Markbnj]

Are you sure that's matter being thrown out?

It doesn't get pulled back in.

No, I'm not. I'm speaking generally. I know some of the phenomena are plasmas, but I'm fairly ignorant of solar science.

 

[spidey07]

No, I'm not. I'm speaking generally. I know some of the phenomena are plasmas, but I'm fairly ignorant of solar science.

Well make up your mind! Is it a wave or a particle!

Tee hee.

 

[mrrman]

thats pretty neat

 

[Baasha]

The loops we see in the video are solar prominences; plasma that gets ejected but follows the path of the sun's magnetic field. That's why they "curve" back to the surface.

Some fascinating facts about the sun:

1.) It converts 610 million tons of matter (hydrogen) into 606 million tons of helium - while 4 million tons is released as energy every second.

2.) The energy is equal to 10^27 watts (joules/sec.)

3.) The atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima in WWII converted just 7 grams of matter to energy!

Yea, the sun, an otherwise 'ordinary' star, is truly divine!

Without it, there is no life on this planet!

 

[JackBurton]

Absolutely amazing.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Woah that's epic. I've been thinking it would be cool to take a pic of the sun with my telephoto lens (with a ridiculously fast shutter speed) but too scared I damage the lens or camera.

 

[disappoint]

Aside from geothermal and tidal power, everything we use is just a tiny remnant of collected Solar energy.

edit: don't shit me about atomic power, it took a sun going nova to create those heavy elements.

Well in that case, everything on Earth came from stars. So there wouldn't be any geothermal nor tidal power without Earth and the moon both of which formed from stars erupting long ago.