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Post by jody on Jan 4, 2013 16:08:42 GMT 10
Well new years eve and new years day for those of us not in AMERICA. Best to go into the link as there is footage as well. www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/solar-eruption-new-years-eve-nasa-satellite_n_2395587.html?utm_hp_ref=science&ncid=webmail13 As people around the world rang in the New Year to celebrate Earth's latest trip around the sun Monday night, our closest star marked the occasion with some fireworks of its own — a dazzling solar eruption. The space fireworks occurred on New Year's Eve (Dec. 31) during a four-hour eruption on the sun. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a video of the solar event. The video shows a bright plume of super-magnetic plasma erupting from the sun's surface. "A very nice display of solar activity — it's a New Year's Eve Ballet," SDO officials wrote in a video description posted on YouTube by the mission mascot Camilla Corona SDO, a public outreach effort. The sun is currently in an active phase of its current 11-year weather cycle, which scientists have dubbed Solar Cycle 24. The sun's activity cycle is expected to reach its peak (or "solar maximum") in 2013, astronomers have said. "The sun has had sunspots every day in 2012. Solar max here we come!" SDO mission officials wrote in a Twitter post last week.
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Post by pim on Jan 4, 2013 16:29:20 GMT 10
Is that what the Sun is now in the universe of verbal diarrhoea that is the modern media? "... our closest star" I'm not sure you could even begin to explain to these people why that is such a clueless and stupid choice of words Pearl before swine ...
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Post by jody on Jan 4, 2013 16:33:29 GMT 10
It has been called our closest star for some time now Pim.
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Post by pim on Jan 4, 2013 16:35:46 GMT 10
Just further confirmation of the power and durability of ignorance and stupidity.
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Post by pim on Jan 4, 2013 17:22:30 GMT 10
Not disputing that it's a star. That's hardly the point. I can see that this could be the beginning of one of those "100 posts" sessions and I'm not up for that right now. I have to go. I have to log off. It's got to do with poetry. The Sun is a lot more than just "our ..." - and I want to spew when semi-literate journalists go for "touchy feely and inclusive" refer to a thing or a person with the possessive "our". Of course it's "our"! Whose else would it be!! But moving on ... the Sun is a lot more than "our <gag> closest star". It's the bloody Sun! If you talk about the Sun there's only one heavenly body you could be talking about and that's the bright object in the sky that's poured down a 44° heatwave today.
(mutters) our "closest star" ... mutter mutter ... bloody wankers!
I'm going to have a gin & tonic. See yez!
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Post by jody on Jan 4, 2013 17:30:34 GMT 10
lol....Pim. Go ahead and tell it like it is
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Post by fat on Jan 4, 2013 23:44:19 GMT 10
I think it is the heat
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2013 8:23:35 GMT 10
I'm going to have a gin & tonic. See yez! Funny, I pegged you as a Pimm's kinda guy? ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2013 9:23:49 GMT 10
Its our closet sun....thats far from the center of the universe.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2013 10:37:22 GMT 10
The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace .
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Post by caskur on Jan 6, 2013 11:15:48 GMT 10
The sun is a star... All stars are suns,... why does Pim think they aren't?
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