The Sun: Our Shining Star (rotating & erupting)

SOHO satellite captured the Sun's eruptive prominence. Also, a time-lapse view of this massive star rotating.
Images courtesy NASA

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[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).

[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?

[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

[jasminerenn]

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

[BobDingle25]

Damn how big are those eruptions?

[jmm1233]

Sun FTW

[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!

[Adun4184]

@Cromoney1

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

[VIC4SALE]

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