Fantastic Aurora: Inside the Sun to Earth's Poles

[VideoFromSpace]

Yes that's correct. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME's) happen frequently – thousands of times per year – varying with the Sun's rhythmic activity. But we generally call them "solar storms" only when they impact the vicinity of Earth.

[WannaBeJolly]

Wait. So an Aurora only occurs when a solar storm hits the Earth's magnetic field? How many solar storms occur? Somebody please answer, I really want to learn.

[Duodecillian]

I want to see the Aurora Borealis before I die.

[JonnyThePocketRocket]

anybody else misread the opening titles as foreskin?



[tunateun]

Vsauce comin' through.

[rodjori]

@alex001234 per hour, not per second. Divide by 3600: 2222,22 km/sec.

[VideoFromSpace]

@mcwafflefries Solar storms happen often. We just had a mild one on Nov 28th. A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) leaves the Sun traveling straight out in one general direction. You know you're going to get hit is you see the cloud get larger and larger (think Star Trek weapons). The Sun has a basic 11 year cycle, but there are odd variations. It's been especially weird in the last two years, but we haven't been keeping accurate data until recently in human history. Look for a peak in late 2013.

[Nattigirl2412]

@VideoFromSpace I have a question. English is not my mother language, so I might have misunderstood or misinterpret some of the explanations. But my impression is that you can at any time see the polar lights way up north, right? But if they only come from solar storms, shouldn't the solar storms be happening all the time? 

[KafarMorted]

wow it is power of nature, very beautiful

eaven God can not make suck art lol

[Zandonus]

Wow, uploaded on the night of the summer equinox. We drink lots of beer, eat lots of cheese, dance around a bonfire, sing songs of all kind, seek the blossom of the fern (have sex in the bushes) As a ritual for the tribal traditions we had in earlier times. One of the most best pagan rituals ever. Latvia forever. I know Caribbeans have these rituals too, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET AND ON ISLANDS WHICH THE LATVIANS WOULD NEVER even come to. Weird, huh?

[VideoFromSpace]

@Zandonus Yeah. Weird, huh?

[ahmad05544]

ethry



[cs2sasuke150]

strong solar storms can act as EMPs , we had 1 sometime in the 1800s.

[VideoFromSpace]

@cs2sasuke150 Peaking on September 1st through 2nd 1859. But it's not accurate to compare solar storms to EMPs (from nuclear detonations) which are very high magnitude, very quick, localized events that can effect small (solid-state silicon semiconductor) devices. The risk in solar storm is mostly the voltages that can be induced on long conductive metal structures (POTS telephone lines, railroad tracks, utility power grids).

[cs2sasuke150]

@VideoFromSpace i wasn't saying it is an EMP, i'm saying it can have the same effect as 1 (knocking out electrical grids frying circuits) only strong ones though.

[denisgdi]

Whats the name of the ending song or where can i get it?

[townbiscuit]

i love science. but this is pure speculation.

[VideoFromSpace]

@townbiscuit Not.

[townbiscuit]

@VideoFromSpace How is that ? how are these more than theories ? explain please who cut down a sun in half. same goes for the earth . seen plenty of documentaries abundent in unsustainable theories. not saying they are not plausible but something plausible does not make something an actual fact.

i`m just asking questions

[VideoFromSpace]

@townbiscuit And good, valid questions they are! But science is pretty powerful stuff. By the early 1950's, enough was known about nuclear fusion to build hydrogen bombs; essentially what's going on inside the Sun. Other parts of this scenario have been similarly studied, modeled and demonstrated repeatedly. But no scientist would disagree with you on your point: if a theory cannot be "sustained" by replicable experiment, it cannot be be considered a fact, no matter how plausible.

[Zandonus]

@VideoFromSpace Well, we couldn't create what truly happens in the sun, but very soon, we won't even need a mini-sun on earth, because.. oh come on, As advanced as we may be, as conscious as we are, I still create heat in the heating system of our household... By burning wood. And trees grow back... As long as you re-seed them and don't completely destroy the ecosystem. The basic idea of a hydroelectric plant is a watermill. Which was first thought to be created --->

[Zandonus]

--->in around the first half of the 3rd century BC in a greek colony Byzantium. It was what is called the horizontal-wheeled watermill. Of course, the efficency has increased, but the principles are almost the same...

[VideoFromSpace]

@Zandonus We get your point. Even longer ago; about 1000BC in southern Iraq (Persia), wind was used to pump water, then to grind grain. You might this video of ours (condensed URL): youtu-dot-be/ImRKK7Wh1kQ

[Zandonus]

@VideoFromSpace 1000 BC? I Just thought it was way later.. Oh well, good things in everything. Thanks for the link :)

[magmasceptre]

@townbiscuit then come up with a better one

[0sjors0]

how the fck do they know how tho sun looks like from the inside -.-

[jt8908]

So basically the sun pops huge boner, busts a nut, and his jizz makes its way to our atmosphere? Amazing!

[vivi500100]

It's thanksgiving Thursday I have no need to learn

[0engima0]

what a great video dude

[jozsab1]

a good alternative to explain to your kid how babies get "made"

[repickmukalw]

funnny

for me it makes no sense, why the last magnetic field don't go backward like the other

[iaagp]

*wonderful.!!

=)

[iqbalkamal]

ITS HAVOX, I THINK PART OF FALSE THEROY JUST LIKE DOOMSDAY. MAYBE ITS PART OF CONSPIRACY FROM OIL & GOLD LOOTERS

[IZsniperlRaptorlZ]

I wonder who control inside the sun

[born2war1]

man aurora look beautiful

[SSmilingSoul]

Could Earth handle multiple solar storms one after another within a space of a day?

[VideoFromSpace]

@SSmilingSoul No reason to expect that our biosphere couldn't handle such a multiple event. Odds are that's probably happened before. The difference now is that we humans have developed electrical and electronic technologies and are becoming increasingly dependent on them for critical needs. So Earth and biology can deal with the scenario you propose. But civilization? That's another thing to think about...and prepare for.

[Yobidefy]

I think plasma is like a text message..sun is sending a text message to earth..

[AlbertaGamer]

@Yobidefy - the text message says :-)

[salfemist]

i just had one of those moments when you say OHHHH so THAATS how it works :')

[chris112denmark]

This was very interesting!

[archerpauly]

i hate to lower the tone but why would people of science called there website forskning, this is exactly us nerds get beat up at school, i was lucky i had common sense as well as common knowledge

[limeugene1]

if it takes out electricals like an emp then would it be out forever or will it start working after sometime?

[VideoFromSpace]

@limeugene1 The stuff to worry about are power lines, transformers, copper telephone cable, railroad switches - all of which can be fixed/replaced in relatively short time. Not so much concern for micro-electronics, which are too small to have much charge induced in them, except in satellites above the atmosphere which are in danger of getting permanently fried (this happened in 1998).

[foleybarbarian]

@limeugene1 A sun Flare that is shot out from the Sun most times the energy is not Strong enough to act like an EMP. but it can happen and does. if a strong flare was passing earth.

[foleybarbarian]

@limeugene1 Another thing its or Ozone Layer that stops the sun flare from doing more Damage to us. as you can see from this movie how the pole lights up..

[NoobsDontLose]

This was in the related videos when i was watching, "How Female Orgasms Work For Dummies"

[MrCaspianX]

1:28 - 1:52 Giggity

[phillsaska1]

I don't understand the need for background music. Especially when something is shown moving in space. I cannot understand all the speech with the sounds which do NOT exist in space.

[jahcriado]

@phillsaska1

Because its a video representation. Edutainment. We are very audio/visual &, especially in the last couple of generations raised on movies & TV, no audio would make this almost uncomfortable to watch. Pretty much all audio you hear in produced videos is false anyways, recorded on a Foley stage far from where the video was made.

[VideoFromSpace]

@phillsaska1 Pretty sure your platform comes with a mute button. Use it.

[wasdcontrols1]

@VideoFromSpace sick comeback!

[BardocksSynphony]

@VideoFromSpace but he/she wanted to listen to the speaker

[dragganforce]

@phillsaska1 what an odd thing to say....

[Djvas89]

3:22 spider or ant? :P :P

[Brian85Titan05]

Then we take power away from life support.

[ThePandakid16]

What if the plasma is too strong for our shield what happens then O.O!

[VideoFromSpace]

@ThePandakid16 Hasn't seemed to have happened in the ~3Billion year history of life on Earth. I say, let's play the odds.

[MrBojax]

@VideoFromSpace It would take out all electricals like an EMP or wouldn't it just totally wipe our atmosphere out completely if powerful enough. It's taken electrics out before I'm sure of that.

[LoveMusic123211]

@VideoFromSpace Is it possible that someday the magnetic fields change?

[chessonmyshirt]

@VideoFromSpace

Well the Industrial Revolution only began 200 years ago.

[thebloads]

What are the particles made of? And do they remain in hazardous form after they are decelerated by the atmosphere at the poles?

[VideoFromSpace]

@thebloads They're simply Hydrogen, no worries. And they're not slowed (much) by the atmosphere. The aurora light show comes from the electric charges on the particles (bits of Hydrogen atoms) as they intersect the magnetic field of Earth. Like the alternator in your car – or the dynamo at your local power station – current is induced. That's why these are polar-centric phenomena. The only danger comes if large electric charges are transferred to power grids, railroad tracks, telephone lines.

[oscarsantoyo]

Cool ass video.... Cause knowledge is power XD.

[cartmanofsp]

So if Earth didn't have a 'shield' what would happen to us? Dead?

[VideoFromSpace]

@cartmanofsp Picture Mars: a cold, dry, lifeless (probably) desert world.

[jmpatinhas15]

@VideoFromSpace

Mars, although it is geologically inactive, still has a magnetic field because the crust composition is made of metals so it has auroras like on earth.

[madesttjack]

@VideoFromSpace cold? earth is way too near the sun to be cold.

[VideoFromSpace]

@madesttjack It's not only proximity to its star that governs a planet's temperature. Earth generates some heat of it's own due to radioactive decay, but it loses much more to space than it makes (Jupiter makes more than it radiates). An atmosphere is needed to generate a greenhouse effect. And some serious gravity is needed to hold oceans. So a dense planet that's massive for its size with a magnetic field is the best shot for life-sustaining temperatures. That's what we enjoy on Earth.

[madesttjack]

@VideoFromSpace Ty for the info :3

[TheBrendadale]

The Northern Lights are so astoundingly beautiful! Even with our modern scientific explanation of the phenomenon, you can't help but be awestruck when you see them dancing across the night sky!!! Imagine, even 5,000 years ago, what people must have thought of these heavenly events. Eclipses, meteor showers, comets, and the Aurora Borealis (or Australis). Science doesn't diminish their beauty!

[VideoFromSpace]

@TheBrendadale Science celebrates. It never diminishes.

[gthreesix]

So the aurora we see is actually plasma? Is it powerful enough to cut steel?

[Kadda67]

fucking electromagnetics,

how do they work?

[ItsRG4M3R]

Too stupid to understand this? Try Religion ;)

[ManiacalLyricist]

STUNNING 360P. I think the quality of this video is worse than BEFORE HD came out...

[cruxfilm]

@ManiacalLyricist

Here's a 720p version: watch?v=lT3J6a9p_o8

[gd01skorpius]

Science, muthafucka! Do - you - speak - it ?!

[saosko]

how the fuck do they know all this shit? i call bullshit

[Task5003]

@saosko Science.

[zilzila007]

thanks for this vid.

[LanSi91]

I fail to see how this makes god real.

[pureawesomeness2012]

@LanSi91 proof denies faith, and without faith god is nothing. this doesn't prove god exists, therefore he does.

(Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy reference)

[psagar]

wow. this is just ridiculous. 

[a316323]

if this vidoe have CC it well be better than before

[jezztoffy]

LORD HE IS A LIVE ... I SEE THIS TODAY IN THE SUN AND THE MOON !!! AMEN..TODAY IS THE LADY OF THE ROSARY ...AMEN

[914light]

very cool !

[teddypsn]

wow 

[Kwinchboy]

LOll god is reall....RLYY?????!!

[Rok4theROK]

God is real

[ALMEZANY305]

سبحاان الله

Sobhan Allah

[ronheri]

Beautiful...God is protecting his people on earth.

[IBcnz]

@ronheri God? LOL get real.

[LeafFreedom]

@ronheri Yeah just like he is protecting all the people who are dying horrible deaths every second you breath.

[CMOpatrick]

i really appreciate this one. i might have already known almost all the material (there actually were a few things in there i never knew :) ), but had never seen it put together so well. this will be a great tool to help others understand. thank you.

[PlaneChasers]

i thought it said "foreskinning"

[D4paradigm]

whoa that's cool, wish i could see it :)

[boia1998]

wow very good

[darkfafi]

but how did the progress start if it needs heat to go on?

[Culturealimprovement]

@darkfafi The heat comes from the matter being pulled towards it by gravity.

[darkfafi]

@Culturealimprovement but where dus the heat come from how did it start?

[darkfafi]

you know the energie build thing?

[ColinGoPlayDrums]

who else the thumbnail looked like a dick?

[TheComputerNerd1498]

wow

now i know!!

i didnt know befor

[A1iiiiii]

WTF? Intelligent comments? hmmm...

The thumbnail looks like a penis! Had to be said

[Rabbitgirl57]

pretty *-*

[MountThor]

When I lived in Edmonton the aurora's where totally awesome to see! Great video.

[ProphetTenebrae]

Wait, wait, wait - 18 hours to get to Earth, 12 to get to Venus and 6 to Mercury? Is the coronal mass ACCELERATING!?

[ED4action]

@ProphetTenebrae i'm thinking it has to do with distance,,,, or perhaps it's simbolic for 6-6-6 as in 6-12-18 or to put it differently,, 6+6+6..... or were the 3rd rock from the sun,,,,

[ProphetTenebrae]

@ED4action Just doesn't make a lick of sense to me.

[SSArt98]

Awesome explanation!