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[StriKeVillain]

Beautiful.

Now I want to go home and watch Sunshine.

 

[Archaeopteryx]

help.

There you go:

Canis Majoris literally freaks me out.

Makes you feel rather small and insignificant, doesn't it?

Man, I love space. It's terrifying and awe inspiring all at once.

 

[Tathanen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWCJkG31h0c

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

[caramac]

*bump

Timelapse footage released by the space agency Nasa shows a solar eruption taking place around the edge of the sun.

The coronal mass ejection (CME) took place on Wednesday 1 May 2013.

The latest flare released more than a billion tons of particles at speeds of more than a million mph.

The 10 second clip shows events which took place over two and a half hours.

Amazing.

 

[Megasoum]

 

[maquiladora]

Canis Majoris literally freaks me out.

C'mon sun.

 

[bengraven]

Space does not want us there.

 

[SniperHunter]

Canis Majoris literally freaks me out.

damn.....that star is going to create a major kill zone when it explodes and leave behind an enormous black hole

 

[Raist]

Looks really HQ. Amazing.

each second in this video corresponds to 6 minutes of real time.

Well, fuck me. A nice whole day of plasma rain.

 

[Apath]

IIRC Canis Majoris is not dense at all.

 

[jmdajr]

Amazatron

 

[VanillaCakeIsBurning]

Imagine if the Earth was that size. All the continents on our planet would only cover a small junk on the surface of the planet. Assuming we had the same level of technology as we do now I imagine we would still be exploring it and nowhere close to covering the entire thing.

 

[SJRB]

The sun is pretty terrifying.

 

[Raiden]

The sun is pretty terrifying.

I love that movie for the sun scenes alone.

 

[-MB-]

damn.....that star is going to create a major kill zone when it explodes and leave behind an enormous black hole

It's big enough to cause a hypernova.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Canis Majoris literally freaks me out.

An actual picture of Canis

 

[Josh7289]

I want to hear the sound of the sun

Whoa, that's a good point.

 

[Talon]

We are but specks, hurtling through space on a tiny rock.

 

[timetokill]

man, dudes... we're just fuckin' specks, just specks bros

 

[metareferential]

Now I want to see a big star explode. All over my face.

 

[Shambles]

Oh god the compression. Is there a non low-quality source of this video that NASA provides somewhere?

Edit: Ah, looks like I found it: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011100/a011168/

 

[Always-honest]

Woaw... beautiful

 

[Shadow2222]

I feel so small right now.

How do some people truly believe that there isn't life outside of Earth (even if just microorganisms)?

 

[TheKaeptain]

Awsome

I fucking love the universe.

 

[Youta Mottenai]

Amazingly beautiful!

man, dudes... we're just fuckin' specks, just specks bros

I feel so small right now.

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