Photo: Dialup warning Solar Flare

[Ichingcarpenter]

August 31 2012

The filament had been held up for days by the Sun's ever changing magnetic field and the timing of the eruption was unexpected. Watched closely by the Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, the resulting explosion shot electrons and ions into the Solar System, some of which arrived at Earth three days later and impacted Earth's magnetosphere, causing visible aurorae


At least the earth would have three days to shut down the electrical grid if we experienced a Carrington Event, because of this NASA satellite. The photo almost looks like a painting but its not.

[liberal N proud]

1. Amazing

[DippyDem]

2. Wow! The sun god has blown a huge zit.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. Desktop wallpaper!!!!

Especially if it's color shifted.

[catbyte]

4. WOW. It doesn't look real--especially the top picture. Awesome, thanks for posting.

Mom to Taz, Nigel, and baby brother Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Aren’t Luggage--HISS!”
and
“THANK YOU, DU, FOR SAVING OUR HOME–PURR!”

[tclambert]

5. "You Earth humans live near that thing? That's crazy dangerous."

My alien friends love to tease us this way. They've got a point, though. Living near a fluctuating nuclear reactor, one which sometimes explodes, doesn't sound like such a good idea.

[tomm2thumbs]

6. holy F*** that first one is just beautiful!!!!!!!! Scary too, but awesome!

thanks for finding/posting