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  • First destructive solar flare was recorded in 1859. Telegraph poles were on fire and telegraph network were down. After careful study, next event was already foreseen with 90% life wipe out but Scientists coded the actual date in Religious way to prevent people from panicking (late 19th century). Micheal the Archangel was the key where he defeated Satan and save the Earth from burning in Hell. 2012 - 1859 = 153.

    Search 153 that relates "Micheal the Archangel" in Google. You'll be surprised.

  • The sun is entering a particularly active time, says NASA, and big flares like the one from yesterday will likely be common during the next few years, with solar activity expected to peak around 2013.

  • is this the real sun fo real?

  • HUUUUGE!

  • Not a good day to go tanning, trust me.

  • dammmmnnnn

  • CERN did this on MARCH 30th 2010 All 3's....Just like CERN was engaged during the Norway Spiral and a host of other things...These cats want us to believe it's the end of the world even if they have to BRING it on themselves...Find out who and what they are. Nasa skull and bones 322 equals March 22...same day as Georgia Guide Stones..same day as obama care. First day of ARies... Arian... Arian NAZI NASA!

  • why is it called solr prominence?thought was called something else

  • so is it going to affect us?

  • If u pause between 9 and 10 seconds u can see a UFO fly by at almost light speed in the lower left part of the screen. ;j

  • That's quite a spectacular eruption!

    Glad the particles are not coming this way.

    Also nice to see how the sun rotates (it does you know).

  • Yes, our wonderful Sun is a life giver and taker, and giver again!

  • I love my fellow nerds! My account of the end of our sun was very abbreviated and I did also know about the end of our sun's main sequence (our star, the Sun, is very common in our universe!), but I skipped ahead out of the red giant phase to just end it with our sun becoming a planetary nebula with a white dwarf star in the middle. Thanks for the very brilliant (no pun intended) clarification of our sun's life cycle.

  • @youchris67 Cool!

  • Dear Postal133 -- That's the Sun rotating. It rotates once about every 27 days. The movement of either STEREO spacecraft in its orbit would be almost negligible in such a relatively short video clip.

  • @MrSteeleman1 This footage is from March 30th, 2010 NOT IN APRIL

    I have the original footage they are hurrying to cover up.

  • Is the sun rotating there, or is that just the STEREO's orbit around it?

  • We may yet get a glancing blow of particles from the eruption, but it will have no major effect on Earth. maybe some aurora. The coronal mass ejection's cloud is so disperse when it gets here. But it doe carry some magnetic field from the Sun and that at times can upset satellites, navigation, and communications a little. No need to duck!

  • My question is.... what if that hits us?

  • @Supernova310 its too far away : ) but if it were to hit us, it would be pretty disastrous

  • 2012

  • If the sun produces so much energy and so much heat that it can make the tar on the road too hot to walk on then why don't we just use that to generate electricity instead of coal powered furnaces ? Like, really, I don't get it. Is this another one of those "its about the money, stupid" sort of things?

  • @lastmiles Problem with renewable sources like this is that it's only sunny for part of the day, it's not always sunny (eg cloud cover), it would be hugely expensive, take up LOTS of space, and not generate enough power to meet demands.

  • Just think:

    right now, the sun is a life giver, but will one day 4 1/2 billion years from now, be a planetary nebula with a white darf star in the middle that has now expanded into our orbit and destroyed all life on the Earth that it helped to create.

  • @youchris67 Apparently, though, there was a star that exploded before ours formed, and from its remains came the coalescence of matter into the planets (and sun) we recognize today. So, without that star's death, we wouldn't have been born. Perhaps, somehow, our sun's death will trigger a similar life-changing event.

  • @svartiske That is, where "changing" = "creating, destroying, or otherwise manipulating"...

  • @youchris67 Not quite accurate. The sun, over the next billion years, will continue to brighten. After this billion years, it will have become so hot as to evaporate the oceans on Earth. At this point, life will be hard pressed to exist on Earth. Then after a few more billion years, the Sun will end its main sequence life, and become a Red Giant the atmosphere of which will engulf the Earth. After this stage, does it become a white dwarf star.

  • nasa says due to the size of our sun in the red giant phase there is a 32% chance the sun will supernova

  • i just bought a 4inch meade SCT with a solar filter. makes for some awesome solar views. i love the sun.

  • Now you people got to see solar flares and such with those telescopes with those special filters.

    Took me a week or two to dawn on me on how awesome of a thing I saw with those telescopes. Solar flares dancing... which are easily larger than the Earth.

  • i wonder what sort of effect this has had on our consciousness o_O

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  • It must totally SUCK to have such a prominence erupt in our direction...

  • thanks MrSteeleman1

  • Lucky thing we weren't in its path!

  • cool

  • Simply incredible capture of this massive 'CME'. Truly stunning (good thing it didn't come our way). Cheers to NASA. This is tremendous science gain for the buck.

    While we need continued, expanded and 'cooperative' manned missions, I'll just vote that we need more mid-term joint-investment into sats and probes and rovers, etc.

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  • what a show!!

  • It's so amazing that we get to study a star so close up. Every time I go outside and feel the heat of the sun I think about the fact that I'm feeling the heat of something that is 93 million miles away!

    Solar astronomy is a wonderful field of study!

  • @VanillaShoelace - Yeah, me too. I'm like "Whoa! There's a huge nuclear fireball in the sky! Oh, it's just the Sun. Thanks for the heat and light, Sun!"

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