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Sun breaks free
February 12, 2023 at 10:20 pm
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Surprised no one posted it here.
Part of the Sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists
Global News
Quote:Something very strange is going on with the Sun, and while it’s a phenomenon that’s baffling scientists, it also has them very excited.
Space weather forecaster Tamitha Skov shared a video sequence to Twitter late last week that shows a huge filament of solar plasma breaking free from the Sun’s surface.
“Talk about polar vortex! Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our star,” she tweeted of the footage, taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
“Implications for understanding the sun’s atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!”
According to Space.com, it’s the first time such a vortex has been observed. While scientists have previously observed filaments break free from the Sun, it’s the first time they’ve seen it form a polar whirlwind.
It's a sign of the times, the end times!
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RE: Sun breaks free
February 12, 2023 at 10:54 pm
When they say “part of the sun breaks free”, they insinuates something far, far more dramatic than it is. Parts of the sun is breaking free all the time, and get ejected as solar wind. In fact the sun loses about a million ton’s worth of material each second.
That sounds like a lot, but it isn’t. Over the life of the sun up to now, the sun may have lost a total of just a few earth mass of material. But the sun has 300,000 earth mass’s worth of material to lose.
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RE: Sun breaks free
February 12, 2023 at 11:10 pm
Yes, well, it does seem like we are due for an extinction level smiting.
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RE: Sun breaks free
February 13, 2023 at 10:01 am
The sun must be listening to too much Freddie Mercury.
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RE: Sun breaks free
February 13, 2023 at 2:38 pm
Wasn't there some similar hypothesis believed to have created planets that was taken seriously up until just a few decades ago? I remember reading an older book where they explained that planets get created when something disturbs the star which then ejects matter that forms into planets, and that was a reason why the planets are supposedly very rare to occur.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Sun breaks free
February 13, 2023 at 2:50 pm
(February 13, 2023 at 10:01 am)brewer Wrote: The sun must be listening to too much Freddie Mercury.
‘Too much Freddie Mercury’ makes no sense to me.
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RE: Sun breaks free
February 13, 2023 at 3:38 pm
(February 13, 2023 at 2:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (February 13, 2023 at 10:01 am)brewer Wrote: The sun must be listening to too much Freddie Mercury.
‘Too much Freddie Mercury’ makes no sense to me.
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You don't get the 'dad' planetary joke???
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