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  • OMFG!! Each Convection Cell (Granule) is a Big as Texas alone.

  • A pig ate popcorn kernels... 5 hours later it took a shit.. That's it...

  • Looks like popcorn kernels to me :-

  • found out what the music is: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major

  • NewScientist, why can't all your videos have cool music like this one :( now we get stupid hubble music videos.

  • What is this song please answer!!!, and stop arguing about religion its annoying and theres no point. Might as well talk to a brick wall, because no one is going to change their opinion.

  • Little spots of global warming bs...

  • Science is a religion. Religion is anything that is an "ultimate concern" (Paul Tillich). Thomas Berry, in The Dream of the Earth, demonstrated that science and religion are inextricably linked. The Big Bang and Genesis are both ways of describing the origins of the universe. Scientific fundamentalism believes that science is objective; it is in fact quite subjective, a kind of language for describing the "thing in itself." See T. Kuhn. See also The Tao of Physics.

  • who the heck found that?!

  • yea, i dont really see the connection between science and god not existing. i think fundementalist douchebags on both sides just like to start shit about something that doesnt even have a conflict to begin with.

  • This isnt surprising

  • @TrickyNecro totally agree with you.

  • All these religious talks, so fuck up my mind...

    Ok Earth is a fucked up place... why are you making it worse really???

    Fuck your god and fuck your religion, if you live in 2011 and need to believe in

    a God.... Dude... you really suck at life, get along with it....

  • I came from how to making a duck tape wallet to this. ???

  • How is that a whirlpool? its probaly just lava and how can their be lava moving as a hurricane? it i dnt think there moisture or warm air to make a hurricane!

  • @robux1414 do you even know what the fuck the sun is made up of? its not a fucking volcano

  • @robux1414

    it says hurricane SIZED. not hurricanes period. also the sun is not made of lava. its a star. made of gases and chemicals.

    also religious fags: you have your forums, go to them please. i want to look at space.

  • What on earth does this have to do with religion ??? SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!

  • That was one of the most unimpressive sun vids iv ever seen.

  • That was cool, but the sun is quiet small compared to other stars.

  • i keep trying to see it with my telescope.... my eye hurts

  • Looks more like a tornado than a whirlpool. Why is the closeup video clip so short? Shouldn't this camera be streaming online 24x7? I bet it can't look at anything but the sun. If it was online, we could all keep an eye out for anything falling in or spewing out.

  • @ross9886 Ok, you go build a visible light/stereo/infrared telescope, costing a few million dollars plus labor, launch it into space, and make your own 24/7 video stream of a small speck of the sun the size of the moon.

  • No matter what you believe... this video is pretty cool and can be appreciated by everyone.

  • Not as amazing as solar flares the size of earth.

  • @EyeMaske OH MY GOSH YES. I can't even FATHOM something so violent being the size of our planet, let alone my country, let alone my STATE, let alone my COUNTY, let alone my TOWN, let alo- ... Y'know, I think you get the picture. :)

  • Very cool! it's amazing that this detail can be observed in the sun from the earth. Very much of the solar atmosphere's dynamics are influenced by magnetic forces and it is interesting to see convective dynamics so evident on this scale.

    It is also interesting to note that if such dynamics were occurring off the east coast of America there wouldn't be much warning or, for that matter, much chance of surviving such a hurricane!

  • @Hewpie especially if it was made up of plasma :3

  • A side view would be helpful.

  • @kmarinas86 THAT was funny! :D

  • love the beethoven, goes great with the video, i think 7th symphony was it?

  • /r/ the sauce on that song. I've been looking for that forever!

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  • That can't be right at 0:31 the earth is to close to the sun. Makes me very uncomfortable and if you picture a line from the edges of the sun to the earth there would be a tiny little bit of the earth in the dark. nope there is something not right there. lol.

  • @salamalycoom OMG dude it's a size COMPARATION!

  • @salamalycoom lol its for size comparison

  • @salamalycoom Dude, I'm the only one who got the joke. 8>)

  • look its my dinner being cooked

  • who was that found?

  • Actually, while this isn't really the place to discuss religion...

    The people who are saying "science proves it!" are making very little sense. This is a freaking ANIMATED video. Where's the SCIENCE evidence at? I don't want a scientists' animated video showing me their theory of what's happening on the sun. This video doesn't make sense, because the "magnification" being show from the images is quite odd. It all looks animated and fake - science demands real video proof.

  • @jmr1068204

    You arent qualified to comment on what looks 'fake' or not. You know probably close to nothing about the sun or physics in general. I wouldn't trust your judgment any more than a child's. Nature is often more fantastic and amazing than you realize.

    So tell me, what would it look like if it were "real"? I doubt you can answer that because you clearly have no clue what you're talking about.

  • @ophello Nope, sorry, I don't listen to some scientist brainwashing me with some nonsense garbage that they "think they have discovered"...because they "think" they have discovered something on a daily basis. In the world of politics and science, it is basically summed up in this: People like you are only told what the government allows scientists to tell to the public. So, one question for you: Do you think this "video" is real? If anything, it is composed of IMAGES only.

  • @jmr1068204 Do not connect politics and science. Science is not politics, and the methodologies of proposing ideas is done so in a factual and empirically based way unlike politics.

    Do you trust what you see? It is only IMAGES morphed by the fast, unconscious processes of your occipital cortex (think frame rates). Would you like to see what images your retinas actually detect? I think not.

    "'Think' they have discovered . . ." a hypothesis?

    You should read about science; it is interesting.

  • @jmr1068204 You're right, I would much rather be told what to believe based on what religious leaders tell me to believe because they will never mislead me with information that is unfounded or unable to be proven.

  • @Pwnzistor The scientists are constantly going back on their word. One minute they say one thing, the next they say something else. Then they change it again. I see no difference between a cult leader telling people what to think and a bunch of gullible people listening to fanatic scientists who make and break so many claims that they shouldn't even be in our kids' textbooks. Even Evolution is still a theory - why? Because there is no real factual evidence. Apes aren't turning into humans now.

  • @jmr1068204 there is strong evidence for Evolution, why would a whale have finger like structures in its fins when it doesn't need them, other than because its evolved from a previous ancestor and no longer needs them.

    as far as im interested there is no factual evidence for a god but im not going on religious vids trying to convert them, why do people like you bother even looking at science videos and just criticise it to shit.

  • @Pwnzistor Secondly, the problem with "science" is that it constantly cancels itself out. They find water on planets in the form of ice. Mars, for instance. Now they're saying there is ice in the craters of Mercury. But yet, they haven't found any life. They're blindly looking for life in environments where a common person could tell them that it doesn't exist beyond bacteria. They are STILL (and will be until the end of time) trying to find out "how the universe formed."

  • @jmr1068204 Excuse me sir, but they have found microscopic life on mars, thank you very much.. And also, the evolutionary theory does not say that apes became men overnight, it doesn't even say that apes became men ever, it states that we have came from a common ancestor.. Thus explaining why there are so many common traits between us. Take a look into the face of a chimpanzee and then into the face of a fellow human and tell me that you cannot find any similarities.

  • @jmr1068204 Please do more research before babbling on blindly about something that you know nothing of.

  • @jmr1068204 It takes time to make good science that helps the world and understanding the universe. Fourney boloney religion neither takes time or money but helps for nothing except war and hatred. AND can i remind you that you are writing on a computer.

  • @Pwnzistor What about the pope telling African Catholics that Condoms and other contraceptives help spread the aids epidemic? that's misleading, factually incorrect and harmful to his followers.

  • @jmr1068204 Suggestion: Go. Off. Yourself. So you can go to "heaven", which is about five feet underground. In a coffin.

  • @jmr1068204 This video doesn't make sense to you because your four, no, too many, .00000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000001 functioning brain cells can't comprehend it.

  • My favorite planet is the sun

  • @AgentNemesis the sun aint a planet jus sayin

  • @AgentNemesis My favorite star is earth

  • It´s scary the amount of power is just amazing...

  • So tiny lol

  • does the sun spin like we do .

  • @blobby1972 yes

  • arent you not supposed to look directly at the sun....

  • @HiTek93BuZZ These are images possibly rendered from images taken by a special camera...

  • how the fuck does someone notice that kind of stuff?

  • I love how you used the theme from that film that i can't remember the name of... the sun ; a giver of life and yet a solar-systems biggest fear...solar flare's please dont shoot...

  • Beethoven... Maybe Beethoven Lives Upstairs?

  • It's Beethoven's 7th Symphony, second movement. It was used in the movie "Mr. Holland's Opus," and I'm sure many other movies have used it.

  • looks like adobe after effects

  • thats pretty skills xD

  • awesome zoom - LESS RELIGIOUS BULLSHIT THIS IS A SCIENCE VIDEO- go cry about god somewhere else...

  • Omg if god is in the sun he must have a hell of a tan LMFAO

    tho yea i agree with Gary.

    Go god some were else like in Your Church were ppl care !

  • @garylewis91 yeah man, aleluyah !! oops my bad..

  • @garylewis91 your so annoying go be racist elswhere u twat

  • @garylewis91 FYI, we shouldn't care if we are religious or not, so YOU don't say anything about god, because you don't know for sure, you can't just look at the sky and go, NO GOD NOPE!

    And other people, if you were true to your faith you wouldn't argue over this! Be true to your faith, or else your following it for no true reason! I myself are a christian, but i'm getting of this "Religious race war", please do me, do EVERYONE a favor, and just shut up.......

  • @WolfKing70 people are truly religious because they are deluded and dumb, yeah its alright to be religious, but its the people who go and look ata cloud and think it looks like god shagging a sheep

  • holy shit. the sun is really.......... very amazing

  • To cccfish: Evolution is "speculation" and just a theory??? You can NOT be serious. As for the origin of organisms, look into abiogenesis. The universe? Big bang.

    Ok, so you say the universe MUST have a cause, it had to start..so you throw a God into that gap. But by that same reasoning, God must have a cause..God must have been created. It's an infinite regress..

    Do you know how many animals would have had to be on that boat to see the numbers and varieties of organisms we see today?

  • Someone please tell me the name of this song!

  • sorry, im confused. what was that?!

  • cccfish I hope you realize that mountains were formed over time, that way there could have been water there, but before the mountains were formed.

  • In fact I'm fairly certain that there must be water there for mountains to form... or winds. Some eroding force.

    I could be wrong...

  • @whatevtube

    you are very wrong:P

  • Lol theres been so many claims of people finding the arc on mountains but none of its real. If they really found a gigantic boat on the side of a mountain dont you think it would have been all over world news?

  • What about Plato? All of Plato's writings are taken seriously except for his writings on Atlantis. Atlantis was also, 'flooded,' or it had succumb to the water and sunk.

    Multiple accounts in the Old Testament of the ark of the covenant of God possessing highly technological capabilities.

    It's difficult to take any literal meaning from a story without knowing the author's intent, or point of observation, or internal creativity.

    Science, however, is based upon observation and peer review.

  • but some of us don't have souls

  • @killman369547 speak for yourself.

  • Secondly, those "images" would then be animated for this so-called "video" that was produced. Because it's quite obvious that we do not have a satellite or probe orbiting that close to the sun to produce a video in itself. Instead, images are used to basically "animate" something. The issue that comes about is knowing that they could have used x image from x date because it "looked better and was clearer"...and looped it with something that also looked better and cleared, from 2 years ago.

  • @jmr1068204 Uh, have you EVER operated a camera? I think not, as theres this great new feature, called "ZOOM." AND, go do some effing reasearch. Gods.

  • @ophello So basically what that means is you would be watching this video made by someone else's perfectionist approach, and there may not even be a "whirlpool" of any type on the sun...the images are likely taken at different times and dates and are not back-to-back images animated in order. The sun is a ball of fire/plasma basically, and lava on earth is also liquid rock and "swirls." This isn't some huge discovery.

  • @jmr1068204 - in the most respectful way.. pull your head out of your ass.

  • @jmr1068204 Plasma has nothing to do with fire or lava. Plasma is a form of matter like gas with the electrons flowing around. Lava is rocks that have melted. Fire is a chemical reaction. Please go to school and shut up. :)

  • so... wait... because Mohammed was an actual person for sure, Muslim couldn't possibly be a factual series of beliefs, but because Jesus just kinda disappeared before he could be proved wrong he was right for sure? How does that make a lick of sense?

  • Your logic is horrible...

    You postulate that the validity of a religion is based upon the ability to 'dig up,' said Messiahs.

    Did YOU SEE Jesus rise from his tomb and the scars he possessed? I doubt it.

    Is the tomb of Jesus Christ even a historically factual place?

    If there was no way that he or anyone could get him out of his tomb, then... how did he do it? If you say Godly powers, then you are assuming for too much and thus you are denying far too much. You are not coming to any sound conc

  • My point is that some stories are rooted so far outside of the realm of rational thought, that until there is a time when that realm and the realm of the rational come within closer proximity, we cannot take them seriously or even test their validity.

    In my opinion, it is better to search for the truth, with our logical means, then to accept a story, which is no longer rationally tangible.

  • You must be a Christ hating Jew

  • LOL.

  • @cccfish1022 your right it doesnt just happen, it never happend

  • boring and true

  • whats the name of the song in the beginning

  • Beethovens 7th symphony, 2nd movement

  • Lovely! Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

  • heh and those that have said that all will cease to exist in 2012 heh XD well that possibility might depend on the next solar sun cylcle called the Solar Max which is indeed when the sun will become active ever again :D.

  • @flame

    when people foretell it for every year, for reasons being everything possible and add new ones, they're bound to be right at least and only once.. And nobody would remember them after that :) So it's really a LOSE-LOSE situation.. I think some call that depression, some stupidity, the latter being specific for those that think that us is ALL. :))

  • This was neat but the sunspots are more interesting. The video looks like a fiery niagra falls.

  • I love how the christian religion wants so bad to be the top of mountain - they make up explanations about unexplainable items just to make themselves look big. Look back in history to get your facts. What you explained is called EVOLUTION. It's what happens when a star is dieing. I doubt your god could get past the womanizing, child molesting, goat killing worshipers he had back in the day to even try to spell that big ole word out.

  • I-don't believe what you think "kyrednecker" & rather than accept the school of thought accepting religious delusion & pedophile priests I'm more aligned with the original thoughts of Christ where he speaks of outer-space as a 'DEEP-PIT' & the post supernova solar system as a 'LAKE OF FIRE' & re your message on pedophia Christ said tie a rock around their neck & take them fishing & don't bring-em back & as for goat-phuckers it's not my fault whatever Zion did...

  • who gives a fook about religeon when you got science to prove it! and its more fun than being told you cant wank or have sex for pleasure!

  • @LeHylton Haha, touche.

  • big deal... :\

  • Whoa.........awesome.

  • is the sun really that big!?

    or its just not compressed like jupiter?

  • Our sun is very small, in comparison with some stars. Even though it contains 99% of the material that makes up our solar system.

    We are insignificant indeed, except to our families and friends.

    Go check out my Fav's I have a couple of smashers.

    The biggest star known to man.

    Journey to the Edge of the Universe.

    The immensity of the Universe.

    Do those three in that order. I'm sure it will open your eyes a little more.

    Enjoy.

  • sun = 1 million km in diameter.

    very small when you think of the fact the largest star we discovered is around 5000 times larger in diameter.

  • something that bugs me, what if theres planets as small as a basketball with intelligent life on them, so intelligent that it builds ships and travels through space?

  • @WunderDoob

    are these aliens called bacteria?

  • I'm not sure that bacteria can survive in space. I'm not a biologist but doesn't bacteria need temperature and food to live and grow?

  • @WunderDoob

    basicly we are part of space, and basicly bacteria do survive on our earth. There are lots of more places bacteria can survive. But if they can build space ships... welll thats another thing.

    BTW i was being condescending.

  • There is evidence of Bacteria surviving in space ..you need to just pop it in to google ...have a look.

  • @WunderDoob Perhaps not in a state we would know. There are forms of bacteria that can live in extreme cold and heat here on earth, even in acids and bases. They could even be dormant while in space waiting for drifting into an atmosphere. There are theories that first bacteria could have been in the ice of comets that crashed billions of years ago forming what life is today. Ice core samples from the poles are checked for bacteria that might have been froze for millions of years.

  • Yeah.. but who's to say all living things need water and food to live? There might be species that thrive on chlorine and dust in other galaxies...

  • @ObliviuxProductions finally someone speaking sense, good for you man

  • @mitsukai89 Aliens actually most likely, at least the one's we'll see first, could be bacteria. :D

  • And i Though Wemen Made Me Look Small....

    Sheesh

  • does put it into perspective a little bit, dont it? :)

  • The rise in CO2 is always led by high solar activity causing a slight rise in temps worldwide......this means the oceans too...oohh yes the oceans release vast amounts of CO2 which dwarf anything man puts out ......ya'll is sposed to be smart....do some research....find the truth....it's out there....right out there amongst you useless idiots.....ya'll have fun searching

  • If you believe in man maDE "global warming or climate change" you are a "useful idiot"... and quite possibly mentally challenged.......it's sunspots baaabie, sunspots baby.....

  • thats nothing in size compared to the sun tsunami nasa recorded in 2006

  • The chaos inside that is awesome....

  • yet, the sun will never be that powerful during its stage atm. when it will get more powerful we probably wont be here on earth anymore.

  • The sun will not really get any more powerful, (it will vary slightly but that's all).

    it will diminish in power, very slightly, until it gets towards the end of it's life, when it will start to burn Helium, and slightly heavier elements, it will at this stage start to swell up, and expand, will engulf Mercury, Venus, and possibly the Earth too, although it's academic, the Earth will be roasted before it gets to that stage.

    Unless we blow ourselves up, there's no reason we shouldn't be around.

  • just as a note the sun doesn't burn anything, it uses fusion but we all get the point =)

  • that was scary O__O think about how crazy that must look IRL.. i mean.. a 1000 km long tornado on unlimited burning gasses heat O:

  • I just felt my brain collapse in on itself.

  • ....

  • I feel so small!

  • This is the song that played at the end of Knowing.

    Where everyone in the world dies.

    Haha

    I feel horrible

    :)

  • wow this composure is great!

  • ludwig van beethoven composed this piece. One of his best :)

  • what is it called though?

  • What classical composure is this?

  • i dont get it???

  • To much scientology up in this bitch!

  • The sun looks like buckwheat porridge XD

  • i love the music

  • hey does anybody kno wat song this is?

  • Hi, from the L. V. Beethoven's 7th Symphony

  • the universe is a scary place.

  • "the universe is a scary place"

    No kidding. The really scary thing is that the Sun, which dwarfs our planet, is an infinitesimal spec compared to the largest stars. Search YouTube for "Planets and stars size in scale". That's a truly scary video. I wish they kept going, though, to show how small even the largest star is compared to a galaxy, and how tiny galaxies are compared to the gaps between them. The Universe is vast beyond comprehension.

  • Everytime i watch some random sciense movie, there is like tons of sad people that are doing their best to hurt people by telling them how stupid and wrong they are.

  • Because science is the new religion. The adherents to the old primitive faiths are fighting a crusade against their perceived enemy.

  • Science is not a religion... A religion is based on faith.

  • Religion is based on faith in a supreme being.

    Science is based on faith in the predictability of natural laws.

    Given a choice between the two, I would put my faith in causality over divine intervention since I have never seen anything in my life that makes me doubt causality and have never seen anything that makes me believe in divine intervention.

    Still, if you think science is any less based on dogma than religion, you are mistaken. Our dogma just make more sense and are testable.

  • "Religion is based on faith in a supreme being.

    Science is based on faith in the predictability of natural laws."

    There's an equivocation error there. Faith in religion is "Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence." Our *trust* in the predictability of natural laws is based on every shred of empirical evidence available to our species, it's the antithesis of religious faith, where naked credulity is exalted as a virtue.

  • In practice science is indeed not so different from religion as you would like to believe.

    We treat the peer-reviewed literature with a certain degree of reverence because we trust other scientists to be honest.

    Sure, we remain skeptical, but in fact you can't make any progress if you are unwilling to trust anything you didn't do yourself. This is faith.

    We distrust data that overturns dogma (and results in paradigm shifts). To our credit, such shifts occur, but not without causing schisms.

  • "we trust other scientists to be honest"

    If you lie in a peer reviewed article, you WILL be found out, and you're career will be over. Bullshit in religion goes unchallenged for millenia.

    "you can't make any progress if you are unwilling to trust anything you didn't do yourself. This is faith."

    Again you equivocate between reasonable trust born of experience and the naked credulity of religion, where trust based on LESS supporting evidence is considered more virtuous (see: Doubting Thomas)

  • We agree about religion's resistance to self-correction, but you do seem to be a bit dogmatic in your reverence of the scientific process. Even scientists are flawed human beings in the end.

    Feynman coined the term cargo-cult science to describe what happens when the pure scientific process you revere is implemented by flawed human beings. The Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment is a classic example of how respected serious physicists distrusted their data in favor of published data.

  • Yes it eventually corrected itself through the scientific process. This is indeed the merit of science over religion. But by extension, at any given point in time, a number of scientific facts (accepted through the peer-review process) will be wrong. If you understand this process, you know that they are wrong, yet you still build new hypotheses based upon them. If this is not faith, what is it?

  • "If this is not faith, what is it?"

    It *is* faith, but that word has a very broad range of meanings, and it's an equivocation error to conflate that kind of faith with religious faith.

  • "your reverence of the scientific process. Even scientists are flawed human beings"

    Again, reverence is your word not mine. The POINT of the scientific process it that it's practiced by flawed humans who make mistakes, see what they want to see, even lie. The process corrects for that, and it *works*, producing *real, verifiable knowledge*, leverageable into technologies that have transformed civilization. That's earned trust, not blind faith; genuine knowledge, not dogma.

  • "science is indeed not so different from religion"

    It's categorically different. If religious ideas were testable, they would *be* science.

    "we treat the peer-reviewed literature with a certain degree of reverence"

    It's not reverence; peer-reviewed articles are routinely ripped to shreds by other scientists. We *reasonably* treat peer-reviewed sources as *more likely* to contain reliable information because the process requires a baseline of methodological rigor and accountability.

  • yep, you're right.

    Maybe they are even more sad themselves?

    Some religious people do like this because they can't live for god, they want god to live for them - they're weak and need god to survive themselves.

    I bet that god didn't want them to be that way.

  • keep on looking longer. I'm sure you'll discover many other differences too.

  • This page proves that although the Earth is so small, there is an amazing number of idiots living here, and most of them apparently comment on youtube.

  • earth is not rotates around earth idiot

    earth is rotates around sun

  • Well at least we're making some progress. Yes the earth REVOLVES around the sun. You evidently don't know the meaning of the word ROTATE.

  • sun is small then moon when i look

  • i lold

  • Still, "around its axis" would have been a more correct expression :-)