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Sun Unleashes 'Spectacular' & Powerful Eruption

The sun unleashed a massive solar storm today (June 7) in a dazzling eruption that kicked up a vast cloud of magnetic plasma that appeared to rain back down over half of the sun's entire surface, NASA scientists say.

The solar storm hit its peak at about 2:41 a.m. EDT (0641 GMT), but the actual flare extended over a three-hour period, said C. Alex Young, a solar astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center who runs a website called The Sun Today, in a video describing the event.

"The sun produced a quite spectacular prominence eruption that had a solar flare and high-energy particles associated with it, but I've just never seen material released like this before," Young said. "It looks like somebody just kicked a giant clod of dirt into the air and then it fell back down." [Video: See the sun's June 7 solar flare and eruption]

http://www.space.com/11893-huge-sun-eruption-spectacular-solar-flare.html

http://news.uk.msn.com/photos/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=158159533

We are all going to die... bye.
 
Thats how it starts .... unless they can cook up factor 22000 sunblock were all cosmic toast .... am kindof glad in a way allways wanted an excuse to use that roll of bacofoil under the kitchen cuboard :D
 
How odd it's only a medium sized ejection, google images for what a large one looks like. But never seen a pic with that kind of debris on. Photos are very cool.

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This is a large one
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I have been getting a few static shocks from my car and at the gym today, prob just me :D
 
Unrelated question but who said essentially that two thoughts scared the crap out of him, being alone in the universe and not being alone? Was it Carl Sagan or am I thinking of somebody else.
 
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