The Sun: Our Shining Star (rotating & erupting)

[jasminerenn]

i like your video pretty awesome =)) keep it up

[BobDingle25]

Damn how big are those eruptions?

[jmm1233]

Sun FTW

[MariaGarcia281]

PS, don't miss the first total lunar eclipse in two years! It will grace the sky the night of Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 (natures Christmas present).

[CarmineFragione]

@MariaGarcia281 thx, I read that this eclipse is the first for this date in 456 years, is that true ? That is a long cycle for such an alignment. I would guess that the glow of the Sun through the Earth's atmosphere and the reddish reflection makes the Moon still yet lighted, rather than totally dark. The light would be bending through a lens, and appearing red, as the wave length of the light is extended by bending through the atmosphere, and casting it on the Moon to glow red ?

[4catt4]

the music is just real creppy but cool video!

[MariaGarcia281]

Source: NASA (06-17-2010)

Collisions between galaxies are a fairly common occurrence in the universe. Our Milky Way galaxy will crash into the Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years. Galaxies tangle together, kicking gas and dust all around. Often the battered galaxies are left with tails of material stripped off during the violence.

[MariaGarcia281]

Interesting facts from NASA website:

Did you know that the Sun contains 98% of the entire mass of the Solar System?

[TheRyankings]

does a face come out of the sun at 0.35

[VIC4SALE]

nope. its starts @ 0:26. left to right

[fostex101]

i want to jump in ther.lol

[exclamashun]

Hey if Haramein is right ..one day your wish to jump in there may be fulfilled! We`ll be able to travel using the Sun as a portal.

[jinshiksung]

I think that spinning plasma is the source of gravity

[dahoss65]

I'm blind! I'm blind!!

[TriggDev]

The redness of it really scares me...

[Enriquelio]

my eyes watered just looking at it damn imagine if i was looking at it dead on

[HGSpaceTime]

Yes .........Beautiful

[Jackspadeproductions]

I know imagine upclose lol

[Cromoney1]

U would see a wall of fire that never ends, if it was upclose...

Scary lol

[Adun4184]

@Cromoney1

thats if you don't evaporate before you get there lol

[diamondrio21]

if you were looking at it dead on the uv rays would fry the retina's in your eyes, thats why its bad to star at the sun

[beauty3715]

Amazing.

[OzzY163]

interesting

[lilanglev]

scary idk y but scary

[20atlas20]

wow our sun looks funny like that..

do all stars flare out like that, or are they all made from various different matter with different reasons to shine :?)

[dreamscomealives]

aren't prominences harmless?

[SunGoddessAthena]

Pooo, i feel so hot in here. Is it just me or is it the sun?

[IRAQ4EVER95]

is the sun made up of gasses or liqued or what?

[magmaman1114]

gasses

[Infinty0ooz]

lovely

[conewells]

An eruption like that would wipe out Earth in a microsecond. Can you imagine being even close to this monster?

[polor02]

nope! i cant even imagine how big our world is i dont travel much so trying to imagine how big the sun is no the universe! it just amazes me what if out galazy was just a spec in something bigger...

[Zoroasterrrr]

There is tons of stuff falling into the sun every second..... WOW  i feel so small.... :D

[TNBinNYC]

Great ball of fire. Indeed.

[MariaGarcia281]

My newest upload:

Meteors Target Earth

-Our moon and Earth get struck by space objects at approximately the same rate - then why is it that our surface doesn't appear with craters as prominently as the moon?

See video

[MariaGarcia281]

NASA NEWS RELEASE

Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing

"...new images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are shedding light on the true structure of the Milky Way, revealing that it has just two major arms of stars instead of the four it was previously thought to possess."

"Our own sun might have once resided in a different arm. Since it was formed more than 4 billion years ago, it has traveled around the galaxy 16 times."

Find out more at NASA website

[111333364427]

Wtf is the sun moveing??? or just rotateing?

[MariaGarcia281]

It rotates in our solar system but 'moves' around in our Milky Way Galaxy

[lesatseaside]

Well.

I think we've discovered the true source of global warming.

[PizzaRollsFtw]

Hopefully nothing from the sun or any other place will kill me till im like..... 100. lol

[moneyisgreen99]

wow thats soo cool!

[MariaGarcia281]

NASA NEWS RELEASE:

Asteroid to Make Rare Close Flyby of Earth January 29

Scientists are monitoring the orbit of asteroid 2007 TU24. The asteroid, believed to be between 150 meters (500 feet) and 610 meters (2,000 feet) in size, is expected to fly past Earth on Jan. 29, with its closest distance being about 537,500 kilometers (334,000 miles) at 12:33 a.m. Pacific time (3:33 a.m. Eastern time). It should be observable that night by amateur astronomers with modest-sized telescopes

[MariaGarcia281]

More factual tidbits from NASA:

- The 8-minute travel time to Earth by sunlight hides a thousand-year journey that actually began in the core

- Sunrises are seen with light created thousands of years ago in the core of the sun

[stevenckb]

so these are just solar flares you know light can reach earth in like 3 to 8 unless anyone can correct me on it if you can i'd like that

[MariaGarcia281]

JUST? You reduce the magnificence of an eruptive prominence to nothing more than the burning of a match!

Also, I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by the numbers 3 and 8 (no units of measure)

[stevenckb]

oh... no i mean three to eight minutes

[MariaGarcia281]

don't take it personally ;-)

my roar is heartier than my bite

[stevenckb]

I like that in a girl

[MariaGarcia281]

Recent astronomy news:

Planet Mars may be the target of impact for newly discovered asteroid (2007 WD5) on January 30, 2008.

It is fast approaching Mars at 27,900 mph and is the size of a football field.

More info & video on my channel!

[MariaGarcia281]

Additional facts & figures (NASA website):

1,300,000 Earths could fit inside Sun

Age: 4.6 Billion Years

Composition: 92.1% Hydrogen, 7.8%Helium

Rotation Period at Equator: 26.8 days

[dpcmelyu]

Gracias, me adivinaste todas mis preguntas.

Puedo deducir que las manchas solares son como natas de materia "fría" acumulada en la superficie.

Saludos.

[MariaGarcia281]

Si quieres saber mas en el NASA website hay bastante informacion no solo del sol pero de el universo!

[lesatseaside]

excellent info...and staggering when you contemplate it!

[SuckMytoe2]

can u believe how hot it is ?! :S

[yan008]

Its about 6000 degress and 15 million degress inside:D

[MariaGarcia281]

Units of measure please

C or F?

[yan008]

ok 6000c and 15million c inside:D.

[aadailey]

It's amazing how fragile the balance of life is. gives me the shivers when I think about it.