Those filaments are huge! Estimated to be over 1 million Km's in length. Just out of curiosity, what was the longest filament ever recorded? Perhaps this might make an excellent future trivia question? :)
I am looking into the theory(However remote) that the increase in filaments on the sun could be from the CO2 emissions, or maybe even Plutonium emissions from the earth. They could be even be long plumes of Carbon?? I heard on another video posted recently that now is a great time to own a solar telescope. Or the pin hole camera i mentioned recently to view it safely. wow. It is pretty impressive.I hope it does not end up resembling a bowl of spaghetti. I guess that would not be good.
@drkstrong I hope those involved can figure out some way of stopping that Russian satellite from re-entering our atmosphere abruptly. I don't know about not being able to affect the sun. The sun seems to be fluid like a bridge that can be shaken and even destroyed by a child if the right harmonic is applied regenerated.
@FrankensteinFinance Or just one solar telescope sensitive to all the energy spectra of the sun would do fine. I guess we would need bionic LCD eyes as well : )...and lots of open source software.
@FrankensteinFinance That is easy enough done. Even a small telescope with a full apperture subn filter enables you to see sunspot development. If you are willing to fork out a little more cash then an H-alpha filter lets you watch the comings and goings of filaments and prominces. Unfortunately to see the shorter wavelengths you need a satellite and a very sophisticated instrument
@drkstrong I would love to own my own satellite with sensors and specific cameras able to see spectra of my choosing so until then, ****thanks**** for suggesting a ****"H-alpha filter"**** is that which is needed to see those specific solar phenomena (sunspots/prominences/filaments) optically in a human wavelength.
@sircaptainsticks Funny you should say that because that was my first choice but I could not find an image of one with the right aspect (half facing right)
@JonDYou An organized library! My wife is still chuckling over me being organized about anything particularly books. Not smart either (perhaps 20 years ago) now "experienced" I would agree with. That makes up for a lot of smartness! :)
See my response tot he papers you sent me. Thanks BTW!
You taught us all something today, very good of you. You do know about the science of the suns surface actions. Thank you for the short class. Learning one good thing is good, IMHO. Oh and Mercury is very much larger than I imagined and very hot looking. Maximum Respect Loo
How do "They" know that indeed the energy from the sun such as protons and electrons and so on would not increase the general mass of the radioactive cesium that is on Phobos turning it into some thing much more dangerous?
Further more why would the Russians and Chinese call a space craft destined to Mars and name it after the "God" of Fear? I do not think "It" was ever destined to reach mars I think it is a "Star Wars" Weapon and needs to be shot down as Soon AS posible... What do you ThinK?
@diballynibally "They" dont know because most of the energy from the Sun is not in the form of protons & electrons. It is in the form of visible light.
The Russian named their probe "Phobos" because it was supposed to encounter Mars' moon Phobos. The other Moon is called Deimos which is the God of Dread - both fit comapnions to the God of War, Mars.
Trivia - this is the second probe that the Russian called Phobos - it failed too.
Calm before the storm? Thanks for the information and I enjoy your humor and trivia questions!I learn something new every time I watch your videos and a day without learning something new........well, it's a wasted day to me! =)
Thanks for the update doc, I do watch most of your videos even if I don't comment on them all. Particularly enjoyed your Holst Planet Suite the other day : ) Keep up the good work on keeping sun newbies like myself 'informed' on daily developments!
I love your humor and your trivia questions. by far you have taught me much about the sun. it seems you know more than the average bear about the sun. thank you for shareing
@drkstrong I have heard that A gentleman is a man who leaves the shower to take a pee... I think it's funny, still to this day, I am lol. Humor is a good thing no matter what, IMHO, I'm still looking for who doeasn't like your humor...
@drkstrong I found her and wrote her a long letter asking here to be my firend and what does she think if anything is funny. I will let you know if she is friendly, funny or if I am a jerk or a gentle man, I'm still laughing. Why would you leave a perfectly good drain with running water...kinda like skydiving...jumping out of a perfectly good plane. Some people do it, some would not consider it an option or entertainment. Peace
@loowood2 I am in the later camp with skydiving. When doing my phd research in California I arranged to go sky diving with a friend. At had to pull out at the last minute and a mutual friend took my place. A freak gust of wind caught him as he parachutted down and collapsed his parachute and he broke his leg in 3 places. I took that as a sign from above that it was not a sport for me.
@drkstrong I would have done the same thing. Much safer on the golf course. I like the electric cars, something about driving around the coolest garden in an electric car and perhaps a beverage, is just has a ring to it. Ironic that I used skydiving as an analogy. I can relate all too well.
Wow, that filament has really stretched out across the face of the sun, the one coming from the north east extending down towards the south west. Is that because of the speed at which the center spins faster than the poles? If that large filament were to become unstable would it produce a large CME directed straight at us?
@bonnieblue80 No, filaments form along the boarder between predominently positive and negative magnetic fields. These so called neutral lines seem remarkably stable and seem to ignore differential rotation in the short-term (similar to coronal holes).
It is most likely that parts of it will erupt not the whole thing, although I did see that happen about 20 years ago. It is not common in such huge structures.
@drkstrong :) That's good to know. I was an English major, so while I find all this stuff fascinating, I am not a scientist. Even if some don't enjoy your humor, I certainly do. Look forward to watching your videos every day. Hope you had a good weekend.
The magnestosphere simulation has been "stuck" on 11-11-11 @ 09:04:23 UT for the last 2 days.... any idea why? Also there's been a bulletin that the way the data is processed and the way alerts are formulated will be changing on 11-16-11. How will this reporting change the way we view the magnetosphere simulations? (assuming the real time simulation doesn't remain unavailable).
I don't always enjoy your humor or trivia questions, but I DO enjoy the factual info. presented without drama. TY
@Starrmaiden Sorry you now know as much about this as I do, I suggest you contact the creators of the simulation and ask.
I am disappointed that my humor is not to your liking but I guess that is who I am - after 6o years that is unlikely to change much. Just feel sorry for my poor wife who has had to put up with it for 32 years!
@drkstrong lol .nice one doc ,i was looking at those filaments this morning ,amazing ,i was wondering doc do large cme s have there own gravity? i was wondering because many cme s have more mass than earth and as i understand it mass has a large role in gravity?
@MrBrianDunbar ACtually not. The Mass of the earth is about 6e29 gms whereas a large CME about 1e17 gms so it si not even close. Also CMEs are spread out over a huge volume of space. They are so tenuous that they would be considered a hugh vacuum here on earth.
@Starrmaiden Don't like the humor? You seem very stuck on the numbers, you do not actually rely on any info from you tube, JPL, NASA TGFOS, Cptn Bill a numerologist or even yourself or anyone on the internet do you? This is all a giant illusion of what one expects or wants/ desires to see or hear. The real truth is inside of your real self, at least that's what I've been told on You Tube...it's all a joke. Laughing is the best free thing, finding humor is the most serious situation is critcal,
Those filaments are huge! Estimated to be over 1 million Km's in length. Just out of curiosity, what was the longest filament ever recorded? Perhaps this might make an excellent future trivia question? :)
NoWattz 3 months ago
@NoWattz WE dont know what the longest filament is because they can stretch from limb to limb but we dont see how long they are on th efar side.
drkstrong 3 months ago
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I love the explanation from 1:46 about prominences.
FrankensteinFinance 3 months ago
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FrankensteinFinance 3 months ago
I am looking into the theory(However remote) that the increase in filaments on the sun could be from the CO2 emissions, or maybe even Plutonium emissions from the earth. They could be even be long plumes of Carbon?? I heard on another video posted recently that now is a great time to own a solar telescope. Or the pin hole camera i mentioned recently to view it safely. wow. It is pretty impressive.I hope it does not end up resembling a bowl of spaghetti. I guess that would not be good.
FrankensteinFinance 3 months ago
@FrankensteinFinance I think you will have a hard time with finding that theory. Our puny little planet cannot affect the Sun.
drkstrong 3 months ago
@drkstrong I hope those involved can figure out some way of stopping that Russian satellite from re-entering our atmosphere abruptly. I don't know about not being able to affect the sun. The sun seems to be fluid like a bridge that can be shaken and even destroyed by a child if the right harmonic is applied regenerated.
FrankensteinFinance 3 months ago
@drkstrong In any case, it would be good to be able to verify and study/record these events on the sun with personal solar telescopes.
FrankensteinFinance 3 months ago
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@FrankensteinFinance Or just one solar telescope sensitive to all the energy spectra of the sun would do fine. I guess we would need bionic LCD eyes as well : )...and lots of open source software.
FrankensteinFinance 3 months ago
@FrankensteinFinance That is easy enough done. Even a small telescope with a full apperture subn filter enables you to see sunspot development. If you are willing to fork out a little more cash then an H-alpha filter lets you watch the comings and goings of filaments and prominces. Unfortunately to see the shorter wavelengths you need a satellite and a very sophisticated instrument
drkstrong 3 months ago
@drkstrong I would love to own my own satellite with sensors and specific cameras able to see spectra of my choosing so until then, ****thanks**** for suggesting a ****"H-alpha filter"**** is that which is needed to see those specific solar phenomena (sunspots/prominences/filaments) optically in a human wavelength.
FrankensteinFinance 3 months ago
keith whats your theory on what this guy is saying about the water and ufo on the sun?
sircaptainsticks 3 months ago
looks like a halloween pumpkin also...
sircaptainsticks 3 months ago
@sircaptainsticks Funny you should say that because that was my first choice but I could not find an image of one with the right aspect (half facing right)
drkstrong 3 months ago
@JonDYou An organized library! My wife is still chuckling over me being organized about anything particularly books. Not smart either (perhaps 20 years ago) now "experienced" I would agree with. That makes up for a lot of smartness! :)
See my response tot he papers you sent me. Thanks BTW!
drkstrong 3 months ago
You taught us all something today, very good of you. You do know about the science of the suns surface actions. Thank you for the short class. Learning one good thing is good, IMHO. Oh and Mercury is very much larger than I imagined and very hot looking. Maximum Respect Loo
loowood2 3 months ago
It does indeed look a smiley face but was in a knife fight and won.
ProphetChaser 3 months ago
@ProphetChaser :)
drkstrong 3 months ago
Miss your voice !!
hamish12339 3 months ago
@hamish12339 Next Saturday (or Sunday) I promise!
drkstrong 3 months ago
How do "They" know that indeed the energy from the sun such as protons and electrons and so on would not increase the general mass of the radioactive cesium that is on Phobos turning it into some thing much more dangerous?
Further more why would the Russians and Chinese call a space craft destined to Mars and name it after the "God" of Fear? I do not think "It" was ever destined to reach mars I think it is a "Star Wars" Weapon and needs to be shot down as Soon AS posible... What do you ThinK?
diballynibally 3 months ago
@diballynibally "They" dont know because most of the energy from the Sun is not in the form of protons & electrons. It is in the form of visible light.
The Russian named their probe "Phobos" because it was supposed to encounter Mars' moon Phobos. The other Moon is called Deimos which is the God of Dread - both fit comapnions to the God of War, Mars.
Trivia - this is the second probe that the Russian called Phobos - it failed too.
drkstrong 3 months ago
WAW, THIS IS YOUR MASTER PEACE
LOVE AND PEACE
2013skywalker 3 months ago
@2013skywalker :)
drkstrong 3 months ago
Brilliant - thank you dr
youwillBsorry 3 months ago
yeah :-)
zanaelf 3 months ago
Calm before the storm? Thanks for the information and I enjoy your humor and trivia questions!I learn something new every time I watch your videos and a day without learning something new........well, it's a wasted day to me! =)
reeram 3 months ago
@reeram I totally agree!
drkstrong 3 months ago
Thanks for the update doc, I do watch most of your videos even if I don't comment on them all. Particularly enjoyed your Holst Planet Suite the other day : ) Keep up the good work on keeping sun newbies like myself 'informed' on daily developments!
MissInformed1967 3 months ago
@MissInformed1967 I assume you have seen the earlier ones? Mercury through Saturn (mars is my favourite)
drkstrong 3 months ago
@drkstrong No I haven't doc but I will backtrack to watch them : )
MissInformed1967 3 months ago
I love your humor and your trivia questions. by far you have taught me much about the sun. it seems you know more than the average bear about the sun. thank you for shareing
PAMVAUGHN 3 months ago
@PAMVAUGHN Yubba Dubba Do! (yes, I am old enough to remember Yogi)
drkstrong 3 months ago
Thank you Dr., you are a gentleman and a scholar.
unnim 3 months ago
@unnim Not sure about th gentleman bit but I used to be a scholar
drkstrong 3 months ago
@drkstrong I have heard that A gentleman is a man who leaves the shower to take a pee... I think it's funny, still to this day, I am lol. Humor is a good thing no matter what, IMHO, I'm still looking for who doeasn't like your humor...
loowood2 3 months ago
@loowood2 I must remember that definition of of a gentleman! :)
drkstrong 3 months ago
@drkstrong I found her and wrote her a long letter asking here to be my firend and what does she think if anything is funny. I will let you know if she is friendly, funny or if I am a jerk or a gentle man, I'm still laughing. Why would you leave a perfectly good drain with running water...kinda like skydiving...jumping out of a perfectly good plane. Some people do it, some would not consider it an option or entertainment. Peace
loowood2 3 months ago
@loowood2 I am in the later camp with skydiving. When doing my phd research in California I arranged to go sky diving with a friend. At had to pull out at the last minute and a mutual friend took my place. A freak gust of wind caught him as he parachutted down and collapsed his parachute and he broke his leg in 3 places. I took that as a sign from above that it was not a sport for me.
drkstrong 3 months ago
@drkstrong I would have done the same thing. Much safer on the golf course. I like the electric cars, something about driving around the coolest garden in an electric car and perhaps a beverage, is just has a ring to it. Ironic that I used skydiving as an analogy. I can relate all too well.
loowood2 3 months ago
Sun kelpies. :P
Valthepixie 3 months ago
awesome video again!! will keep in tuned for some great events to come :)
AgAzA8 3 months ago
I guessed earthquake in China, which was wrong century
WhackTheWax 3 months ago
Wow, that filament has really stretched out across the face of the sun, the one coming from the north east extending down towards the south west. Is that because of the speed at which the center spins faster than the poles? If that large filament were to become unstable would it produce a large CME directed straight at us?
bonnieblue80 3 months ago
@bonnieblue80 No, filaments form along the boarder between predominently positive and negative magnetic fields. These so called neutral lines seem remarkably stable and seem to ignore differential rotation in the short-term (similar to coronal holes).
It is most likely that parts of it will erupt not the whole thing, although I did see that happen about 20 years ago. It is not common in such huge structures.
drkstrong 3 months ago
@drkstrong :) That's good to know. I was an English major, so while I find all this stuff fascinating, I am not a scientist. Even if some don't enjoy your humor, I certainly do. Look forward to watching your videos every day. Hope you had a good weekend.
bonnieblue80 3 months ago
@bonnieblue80 Thanks
drkstrong 3 months ago
The magnestosphere simulation has been "stuck" on 11-11-11 @ 09:04:23 UT for the last 2 days.... any idea why? Also there's been a bulletin that the way the data is processed and the way alerts are formulated will be changing on 11-16-11. How will this reporting change the way we view the magnetosphere simulations? (assuming the real time simulation doesn't remain unavailable).
I don't always enjoy your humor or trivia questions, but I DO enjoy the factual info. presented without drama. TY
Starrmaiden 3 months ago
@Starrmaiden Sorry you now know as much about this as I do, I suggest you contact the creators of the simulation and ask.
I am disappointed that my humor is not to your liking but I guess that is who I am - after 6o years that is unlikely to change much. Just feel sorry for my poor wife who has had to put up with it for 32 years!
drkstrong 3 months ago 8
@drkstrong I enjoy your humor and trivia questions.... Thanks for all the hard work you put into your vids. God bless!
praeeo 3 months ago
@drkstrong lol .nice one doc ,i was looking at those filaments this morning ,amazing ,i was wondering doc do large cme s have there own gravity? i was wondering because many cme s have more mass than earth and as i understand it mass has a large role in gravity?
MrBrianDunbar 3 months ago
@MrBrianDunbar ACtually not. The Mass of the earth is about 6e29 gms whereas a large CME about 1e17 gms so it si not even close. Also CMEs are spread out over a huge volume of space. They are so tenuous that they would be considered a hugh vacuum here on earth.
drkstrong 3 months ago
@Starrmaiden
Agreed. I don't enjoy the trivia questions at all, but the info is good and no drama.
Rebelii0us 3 months ago
@Starrmaiden Don't like the humor? You seem very stuck on the numbers, you do not actually rely on any info from you tube, JPL, NASA TGFOS, Cptn Bill a numerologist or even yourself or anyone on the internet do you? This is all a giant illusion of what one expects or wants/ desires to see or hear. The real truth is inside of your real self, at least that's what I've been told on You Tube...it's all a joke. Laughing is the best free thing, finding humor is the most serious situation is critcal,
loowood2 3 months ago
i like your intruder alert. lol.. so cute
Ouijeannette 3 months ago
@Ouijeannette Actually someone asked about it so I thought I should include it to preempt further questions.
drkstrong 3 months ago
I cheated, a cyclone in Bangladesh! My guess would have been Nuclear. Did you flash a mug shot today? Happy Sunday.
VibrationsfromMirror 3 months ago
@VibrationsfromMirror Cheating is Ok! Very droll on the mug shot!
drkstrong 3 months ago
thank you for your tutelage!
darkchild1974 3 months ago
@darkchild1974 You are welcome
drkstrong 3 months ago
Happy sunday mr. Strong,I jike your humor, thanks for the lessons.!
romygirl60 3 months ago
@romygirl60 Happy Sunday to you too. I could not resist the smiley face (again)
drkstrong 3 months ago
this is twice now , its the sun today with breakfast and the eggs are sunny side up, most excellent timing !
mertronable 3 months ago
@mertronable Breakfast with a smile!
drkstrong 3 months ago
Good video. Great images and info. Loved the smiley. Stay well Doc.
shaggietrip 3 months ago
@shaggietrip Same to you!
drkstrong 3 months ago