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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is 5 years old, releases close-up video of the sun
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Hydrargyrus
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I will give my life only to be able to see that with my own eyes, only for a moment
OrlanisWorks
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Looks like millions of ghosts trying to escape its gravity.
This is craycray.
This is craycray.
10,000 to 170,000 years at current best estimate. The light we see could be almost as old as our species is and almost certainly predated Sumerian civilisation.
2.6 Petabytes of data, crazy.
Great video, thanks OP.
Truly. It's humbling to consider that a chaotic maelstrom of fusion and fire makes life on our planet possible.
Great video, thanks OP.
Truly. It's humbling to consider that a chaotic maelstrom of fusion and fire makes life on our planet possible.
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Simply amazing.
ArchedThunder
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Pretty awesome video. The sun is pretty cool, even if it is a punk bitch compared to other stars.
Don't forget Ceres. The orbital insertion is on 6th of March.
What does sciencedegrassesagan.skeptycism.fuckyeah@tumblr.com have to say about this video?
In the absence of a proper response from the above source, the below response can moonlight as my opinion, it is sufficiently over the top.
In the absence of a proper response from the above source, the below response can moonlight as my opinion, it is sufficiently over the top.
SystemShock2
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If I were sentenced to death and I got to choose how to die, I'd probably want to be shot into the sun.
.... that sounds painful
This is exactly what I feel. This is mind-boggling to see but I wasn't even impressed for a second for this exact reason.
Escape Goat
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Gnome Scat
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Wow. That's incredible.
Frustrated_me
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Unreal. I'm humbled.
It's sped up and a lot of it is not in visible light, but there's no CGI shenanigans there.
Ultraviolet.
The hotter an object get, more of its light is emitted in shorter wavelengths. Infrared is great for stuff like humans, but for really hot things like the sun or Milla Jovovich, it's less useful.
WhiskerFrisker
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Leo is astronomically humongous. So much power condensed into that star.
How do we know the exact size of these distant stars? We seem to have a lot of information on these things, but I never know how we got it.
Isn't the energy from the sun visible light? What part is not in visible light?
Not all of it.
It radiates a lot of energy in ultraviolet and infrared range.
Visible light is indeed at the "peak" of solar radiation spectrum (at least on earth, the atmosphere do change that a bit) which is why we evolved to detect those wavelengths.
If you're willing to forgo the majestic colours, and accept that things happen relatively slowly, you can view the Sun at high magnification with just some Baader Film, like an ND5 sheet or similar. It's cheap, you can fashion a filter to cover the end of a telescope and enjoy the sun in all its glory (in visible white light spectrum).
Of course, take all the precautions in the world when doing this, but I've been viewing and photographing the sun through my 8" Dob telescope for years now. It never ceases to be knee-wobble inducingly fun.
Also, that video was very humbling, in the best way possible. Thanks for sharing.
WhiskerFrisker
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If only we could switch the mode our eyes detects wavelengths at will. We'd be way too overpowered.
I don't blame you. I honesty think it looks like cg images.
Shouldn't we see other stars in the background? Or is the sun's light overpowering the light we can perceive? Similar to city lights blocking out the amount of discernible stars in the night sky.
Suikoguy
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The sudden change in color is likely when they are observing different light wavelengths.
Different sensors measuring different wavelengths.
When you create an image from nonvisible light, you can assign colors pretty much anyway you want.
They just use different coloring schemes for different wavelengths.
It actually does, sunspots can be 2000 degrees cooler than the area around them.
Chittagong
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Just to give an idea of the scale of this stuff.
The crazy thing is that universe has seemingly no sense of scale. This burst is many many times the size of earth, yet it looks like a volcano or fireburst in human scale. Same thing with galaxy clusters and nerve cells, they look the same. Universe is a big fractal.
And how insignificant and meanless our existance is in a cosmic scale.
Speak for yourself. Those explosions on the Sun are simply cosmic reactions to my magnanimity.
That is absolutely Beautiful.... looks so sureal, although reminds me of a cgi atheistic for some reason, although that is probably because its "different".
If you liked that video, I recomend this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIbfYsQfNWs
Amazing video featuring this still image. Earth botton left, next to OUR sun on scale with some other sun's we know off
If you liked that video, I recomend this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIbfYsQfNWs
Amazing video featuring this still image. Earth botton left, next to OUR sun on scale with some other sun's we know off
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