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WHOA! Check out this *PIC* of a Giant Sunspot!!!!!!!!!!!

ScoobMaster

ScoobMaster

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Awesome looking Pic!!!!!!!!!
Giant sunspot 720 (and a passing airplane) photographed by amateur astronomer Jan Koeman of the Netherlands on Jan. 15, 2005.


Five days later, on January 20th, 2005, "NOAA 720" exploded. The blast sparked an X-class solar flare, the most powerful kind, and hurled a billion-ton cloud of electrified gas (a "coronal mass ejection") into space. Solar protons accelerated to nearly light speed by the explosion reached the Earth-Moon system minutes after the flare--the beginning of a days-long "proton storm."

More detailed story about the blast

Gallery of Aurora's caused by this explosion

*PIC* One of my Favs - SURREAL looking snow patterns and Aurora

*PIC* Spooky!

*PIC* WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by: ScoobMaster
Awesome looking Pic!!!!!!!!!
Giant sunspot 720 (and a passing airplane) photographed by amateur astronomer Jan Koeman of the Netherlands on Jan. 15, 2005.


Five days later, on January 20th, 2005, "NOAA 720" exploded. The blast sparked an X-class solar flare, the most powerful kind, and hurled a billion-ton cloud of electrified gas (a "coronal mass ejection") into space. Solar protons accelerated to nearly light speed by the explosion reached the Earth-Moon system minutes after the flare--the beginning of a days-long "proton storm."

More on the blast

Gallery of Aurora's caused by this explosion

One of my Favs - SURREAL looking snow patterns and Aurora

Spooky!

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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:Q
 
Originally posted by: Triumph
Originally posted by: ScoobMaster*PIC* One of my Favs - SURREAL looking snow patterns and Aurora

*PIC* Spooky!

*PIC* WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Click to expand...

Having never seen the Northern Lights in person, I have a hard time believing that it actually looks like this, instead of just some photographic trickery. Long exposure, slow film speed, etc.
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The ones I've seen usually aren't that bright and the only way to take a picture is to use a slower shutter speed. But they do look sort of like that just a little dimmer, like a giant curtain fluttering.
 
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