Solar Storms

Solar Storms! Moaning Myrtle! Wondering what the frick is behind the solar flares that slammed Earth earlier this week? Hank lays out how that juicy ball of plasma we call the sun causes us trouble from time to time.

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References:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/14dec_mslrad/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/19sep_secretlives/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/18aug_cmemovie/
http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/solar_chat.html
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/X-class-flares.html
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/coronalweather/CMEsFlares/index.html
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06may_carringtonflare/

Credits:
Produced by Hank Green
Chief Editor: Blake de Pastino
Cinematography: Nick Jenkins
Video Editor: Matt Ferguson
Graphics: Amber Bushnell
Written by: Blake de Pastino

TAGS: solar storm, NASA, solar flare, coronal mass ejection, sun, solar, scishow, sci show, hank green, vlogbrothers, stereo a, solar max, solar wind, sunspots, electromagnetism, aurora borealis, northern lights, solar corona

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[skyhigh711]

Holy Moaning Myrtle!

That alone just made my day :)

[bombmistro]

Nice reference to they might be giants

[SecondHandStudioZ]

@eenashay1985 watch hanks video on 2012, theres no reason to be scared.

[pineappleagent1]

my brain went into overload more than once which is not alltogether unpleasant thats a lot of information to process but its fun to learn stuff out of school and not agents my will 

[MrSkechify]

But thesunisamassofincandecanstgas­!

[eenashay1985]

hmm will that happen in dec 2012 and will it hurt us? I'm lookin everything up on 2012 and what they say may happen cause i am scared

[simplystatic]

i love sci show hank!! i love it!!

[The80srockforever]

@bombmistro I am not the only one who noticed :).

[hudacheck]

I swear he changes from mustache to no mustache every episode.

[AmidMenInSuits]

So I've been wondering Hank, (and friends), is it possible the increase in global temperature has more to do with increased sunspot activity? As opposed to increased CO2, which I've heard is actually a delayed result of a temperature increase

[justinsk100]

sounds like the sun had its period...

[KyrnelOfTruth]

According to my husband, the Earth's magnetic poles shift about every 11,000 years, which is a thing I already knew and maybe you did too. What I didn't know which he did is that apparently it has been far longer than 11,000 years since the last time this happened. This blows my mind! I think you should make a video about it. Thumbs up so Hank sees this!