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More Surf Up in the Cosmos - August West - 09-22-2015
This reminded me of the opening of a disaster movie for some reason,
SFGate - Amazing formations on the surface of the sun captivate astronomers
Interesting pics, probably better quality available elsewhere.
Re: More Surf Up in the Cosmos - pdq - 09-22-2015
These kind of pics are always subtly disquieting to me. We think of the sun as that nice, steady, forever-light-bulb in the sky, and the truth is, it's a seething, uncontrolled thermonuclear inferno.
...granted, one that has been reasonably stable over the last 4 billion years (and for the next few billion, hopefully).
I guess I'll just keep my fingers crossed.
Re: More Surf Up in the Cosmos - mrlynn - 09-23-2015
pdq wrote:
These kind of pics are always subtly disquieting to me. We think of the sun as that nice, steady, forever-light-bulb in the sky, and the truth is, it's a seething, uncontrolled thermonuclear inferno.
...granted, one that has been reasonably stable over the last 4 billion years (and for the next few billion, hopefully).
I guess I'll just keep my fingers crossed.
Lots of talk in recent years about the dangers of a coronal mass ejection, which could conceivably disrupt or even fry (technical term!) all the electronics on the hemisphere facing the sun, e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
only there weren't any electronics back then. . .
/Mr Lynn