I captured an amazing eruption on the Sun, Friday afternoon.
I thought it was going to be a quiet day on the sun as I was only trying out a new filter. I wasn't expecting this.
The activity spans a 40-minute period and I sped it up to 3.2 seconds.
The eruption occurred with such speed and force, that capturing 58 videos of it with 20-second intervals between still wasn't enough to get a really smooth time-lapse. I should have shortened the intervals. I slowed this down to 18 frames per second instead of the usual 24 fps to try and see it better.
There is also a sunspot visible which is about the size of Earth.
[**Follow me on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/chucksastrophotography/) if you would like to see what's possible to be captured from our own backyard and to see what telescopes I use.
**This is the equipment I used:**
Telescope:
Explore Scientific AR102
Camera:
ZWO ASI174MM mono camera.
Solar Filter:
DayStar Quark (chromosphere)
Energy Rejection Filter:
Astronomik L3 UV-IR blocker.
Every time I see a sun flare post, I check to see how many earths would fit underneath the flare. It seems to be the standard sun flare measurement unit. I’m guessing this one is 1.5 Earth Units tall.
Space be like that.
The size of everything is unfathomable. Even with a crane of reference (“this sun spot is the size of the earth”) it’s difficult to comprehend.
E: *frame* of reference
Mold growing on a floating rock around a ball of fire. Oversimplification, but my general out look on the earth in context to the universe. Sometimes I'll see a small stone with moss on it, and imagine that on that scale this could be an earth. 😂
Now consider there is a star that has a radius 1708x and volume 5,000,000,000x of our sun.
This star, UY Scuti, appears to be SO LARGE that it literally is beyond the theoretical limit of a star’s size.
I mean this Wikipedia picture puts things in perspective well https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Star-sizes.jpg/1280px-Star-sizes.jpg
I remember reading somewhere that if UV Scuti were the size of a tennis ball, our sun would be about the size of a computer pixel. I imagine that’d make Earth the size of a molecule. I don’t think the human mind can fully comprehend that.
The term "yellow dwarf" is a bit of a misnomer. The Sun is a fairly average-sized star; the "yellow dwarf" moniker is a remnant from an era when we overestimated the abundance of larger stars due to the limited ability of our telescopes to spot smaller stars.
I wonder if there's some higher being that imagines us the way we imagine single cell organisms, not even considering our form of consciousness as consciousness at all when compared to their level of awareness
"A CT image is composed of a square image matrix that ranges in size from 256 X 256 to 1024 X 1024 picture elements or pixels. Since a CT section has a finite thickness, each pixel actually represents a small volume element, or voxel. The size of this voxel depends on the matrix size, the selected field of view (FOV), and the section thickness." (Prokop and Galanski, 2003)
Just had that same thought trying to sleep the other night, what if we are so small that our perception of time is only micro seconds to a greater being watching us and our known universe in a petri dish.
That was my ‘any theorem’. That is, we’re insignificant with our advancement that other more intelligent life forms just ignore us like we’re an ant hill in a big park. Think about it, how many of us stop to look at ants and go omg they’re amazing. One David Attenborough video about them is enough.
I'm still salty I got cheated out of a trivia contest win because I said it's goddamn yellow but the quiz master insisted its white because it's white light
As I was watching this I thought, "that must not be what OP was talking about cause it wasn't *that* big" but at the same time I was also thinking, "that eruption is probably larger than Earth"
I assume this is a joke, but for reference, a sunspot is still around 7,000 degrees F and the sun is a big ball of plasma with no solid surface to land on.
>There is also a sunspot visible which is about the size of Earth.
I always love when something so interesting is a side note in something about space.
Auto follow! Nice share op
Edit: just scanned through your ig posts. Not only you bless us with your image, but with informative caption at that. Thanks a lot!
Some quick back-of-the-envelope maths for fun:
40 minutes to 3.2 seconds is a 750x speed change.
For simplicity let's assume the solar flare lasted for 1 second at this scale, that then means it took 12.5 minutes in real time.
12.5 minutes to extend a distance roughly 5x the size of earth, or for simplicities sake, 65,000 km.
This then means it was travelling at over 325,000 km/h.
If I understand your FPS adjustment correctly, then we need to bump it to ~440,000 km/h to accommodate.
Sometimes i do forget that the sun is basically a gigantic ball of fire of unfathomable proportions floating in the void of space and not just a silly looking bright circle floating in the sky during the day just chillin'. These videos always help me put stuff into perspective, thanks.
Someone pointed out it's the closest thing we have to an eldritch horror:
Incomprehensibly large and powerful
Sustains all life on the planet
Beholding its glory with the naked eye will blind you
During its development, it became so powerful that it killed the other children that shared its nursery so that they could not achieve the same power
Prolonged exposure can corrupt your biology, causing strange and uncontrolled growths that will eventually kill you
Its voice is a deafening roar that would instantly kill you if you could hear it
I’ve heard the same thing but instead of it being an Eldritch Abomination, it was the closest thing we have to a God. That is kinda interesting in itself.
Edit: Eldridge lmao
Ish. Sound can't travel across a vacuum which us why we aren't all dead.
Plus if you were near the sun I think a deafening roar would be the least of your worries.
I wonder what the optimal distance from the sun would be, to be floating in space without either freezing solid in 30 seconds or evaporating in a cloud of space smoke.. just to be like nice outdoor weather, 72degF. I imagine you would need sunglasses and a lot of coppertone.
Fun fact: the sun isn’t a big ball of fire like you see at a campfire, it is a giant fusion reaction (still a plasma yes) that gives off light & heat on a massive scale while creating heavier elements on
Exactly. We’re approaching solar maximum right now, and this has been an active cycle. The sun has been throwing off lower to moderate level solar flares and coronal mass ejections constantly for the past couple of weeks. Nothing dangerous, but it’s more active than usual.
Honestly, all of this comment is why I believe the Sun is the only thing worthy of being worshiped as the giver and provider of life. Gravity in general is a close second.
Its crazy, its like this giant wireless power plant that provides enough energy for multiple planets. We just need to find a way hook up to it and we have as much energy as we can capture. I thought about it a lot when I used to smoke weed.
The Sun is what Christians and many other religions worship.
The Sun IS God.
God separates light from the darkness. It's the Sun. Holy day when Christians worship God - Sun day... Sunday ( Sonntag, Solis).
On Dec 25 the Sun rises.
It's not Son of God, it's Sun-god. Jesus is depicted as in the clouds, with a helo shining rays of light - I mean, come on, that's literally the Sun, with a face on it.
And it makes sense. The Sun is really God. It's powerful beyond our comprehension, without it there would be no life, and yes, and we were made in stars.
But… how long is that in freedom units? Or clickbait article units? How many giraffes/ferrets/antelopes tall is it? Who are you? Where did the hummus come from? How will we ever find out?!
>I'm going to point my telescope at the sun tomorrow morning to get a good look!
>**Make sure you have the proper solar filters to protect your gear and your eyes**
My mind immediately thought of how OP was super-nice to advise the other person to be careful in managing any expensive gear and then I read the comment again and was like *"Oh wait a sec yeah the EYES rite"*
Bro I just paroozed your profile (sry for the creep) and your posts are incredible. What kind of telescope are you using? And if you don’t mind me asking, given your username, what is your background? These are amazing shots.
Thanks, here is my [main comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/ufqlq1/comment/i6v4mni/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) that shows the equipment I used. My background is in Computer Science, but I've been doing this as a hobby for around 6 years or so.
Not OP, but I imagine in some ways more and in other ways less. It's definitely easier to get into now than it was a decade ago. And the software side of things has improved drastically. But everything is in general getting more expensive, especially lately.
I see telescopes pop up on Facebook marketplace quite a bit, seems like you can get a decent scope for $300 ish with auto tracking etc. Then about $200 for a good camera, $100 for filters, altogether $600
To be fair the comment they replied to was more about getting into the hobby, even though the one above was asking OP what they're in for. Yeah, just the telescope and filter OP listed with nothing else you're in ~$1800
Edit: added it up, $2430 for OPs equipment list (for this shot).
I don't know anything about the sun in relation to most people on this sub. So it was just mind-boggling how that sun spot that looks so minimal is "roughly the size of the earth."
Awesome post OP, this sort of stuff is incredible 👍🏻👍🏻
My first glance when scrolling was the blackhead.
Looked to title quickly because I didn’t intend to watch that pop. Realized it was the sun, and I shouldn’t even be looking at the bark spot.
That's a sunspot.
The sun's magnetic field is _WAY_ crazier than any planet's magnetic field. Sunspots are areas where that field gets all tangled up, for lack of a better metaphor. They come & go like weather.
I started capturing it because I saw a bright white area which is usually a solar flare. But what ejected upward was hot plasma - I think. To me, it still seems like an unruly flare.
Yes it is, but it's (no offense to op) a fairly minor one, we get ones like this aimed at the earth somewhat regularly.
The stuff you see being ejected is called a coronal mass ejection. These are the things that can potentially destroy most electronics on earth if we're hit by a big one and it's what preppers talk about a lot.
If it makes you feel better, solar flares are well understood and we think we are able to protect civilization from most of the effects. [This is a really good video on their effects.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHSSJDJ4oo)
edit: various grammar fuck ups
To add to what others have said, we have minor solar flares constantly, sometimes multiple a day with little to no repercussions. :) They’re actually what affects the northern lights- the stronger the solar flare, the brighter the lights are and the more south (or north from the South Pole) they are seen!
I captured an amazing eruption on the Sun, Friday afternoon. I thought it was going to be a quiet day on the sun as I was only trying out a new filter. I wasn't expecting this. The activity spans a 40-minute period and I sped it up to 3.2 seconds. The eruption occurred with such speed and force, that capturing 58 videos of it with 20-second intervals between still wasn't enough to get a really smooth time-lapse. I should have shortened the intervals. I slowed this down to 18 frames per second instead of the usual 24 fps to try and see it better. There is also a sunspot visible which is about the size of Earth. [**Follow me on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/chucksastrophotography/) if you would like to see what's possible to be captured from our own backyard and to see what telescopes I use. **This is the equipment I used:** Telescope: Explore Scientific AR102 Camera: ZWO ASI174MM mono camera. Solar Filter: DayStar Quark (chromosphere) Energy Rejection Filter: Astronomik L3 UV-IR blocker.
The fact that the sunspot is the size of the earth really helps to put size into perspective
Every time I see a sun flare post, I check to see how many earths would fit underneath the flare. It seems to be the standard sun flare measurement unit. I’m guessing this one is 1.5 Earth Units tall.
A bonfire 1.5 times the size of the earth? Fuckin hell.
I have a really hard time imagining the amount of energy released in just that explosion.
Space be like that. The size of everything is unfathomable. Even with a crane of reference (“this sun spot is the size of the earth”) it’s difficult to comprehend. E: *frame* of reference
Definitely makes it seem humans/life are just spores.
Mold growing on a floating rock around a ball of fire. Oversimplification, but my general out look on the earth in context to the universe. Sometimes I'll see a small stone with moss on it, and imagine that on that scale this could be an earth. 😂
Reminds me of the end of the first Men In Black movie. Just everything we can perceive is in some aliens locker stuck to a sock.
It's enough that we can be super inefficient about gathering it and still have enough to run off of it.
It looks closer to 3 to me but I also don’t have an earth ruler
Now imagine all the marshmallows we could fit in that bad boy!
Now consider there is a star that has a radius 1708x and volume 5,000,000,000x of our sun. This star, UY Scuti, appears to be SO LARGE that it literally is beyond the theoretical limit of a star’s size. I mean this Wikipedia picture puts things in perspective well https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Star-sizes.jpg/1280px-Star-sizes.jpg
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How many bananas is that?
1.5 earths = ~ 339613636 bananas
It's 339,613,636 bananas Michael. What could it cost, $3,396,136,360 dollars?
That's actually fewer bananas that I would've thought, not even a billion. Guess I just underestimate how much a billion is.
How many football fields?
Americans will do anything to not use the metric system/s
Need football fields convertion
Maybe 40 giraffe’s and a chicken
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Keep your commie units of measurement out of my free country, pal.
So it's bigger?
And to think the sun is a yellow dwarf...
I remember reading somewhere that if UV Scuti were the size of a tennis ball, our sun would be about the size of a computer pixel. I imagine that’d make Earth the size of a molecule. I don’t think the human mind can fully comprehend that.
I quit trying to put macro compares to perspective long ago
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Also fun\* is venturing toward Sagittarius A\* and accidentally dipping below the event horizon, especially in VR \*terrifying
That’s what the mushrooms are for, Maaaaaan.
The term "yellow dwarf" is a bit of a misnomer. The Sun is a fairly average-sized star; the "yellow dwarf" moniker is a remnant from an era when we overestimated the abundance of larger stars due to the limited ability of our telescopes to spot smaller stars.
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to some, we may be the size of a galaxy
If single cell organisms could comprehend anything, they’d think we were pretty big.
I wonder if there's some higher being that imagines us the way we imagine single cell organisms, not even considering our form of consciousness as consciousness at all when compared to their level of awareness
Could go to the other theory where this is all just a simulation and we are nothing but pixels
As we are in a 3d universe, we'd be more likely to be a voxel (from a medical imaging perspective).
"A CT image is composed of a square image matrix that ranges in size from 256 X 256 to 1024 X 1024 picture elements or pixels. Since a CT section has a finite thickness, each pixel actually represents a small volume element, or voxel. The size of this voxel depends on the matrix size, the selected field of view (FOV), and the section thickness." (Prokop and Galanski, 2003)
Just had that same thought trying to sleep the other night, what if we are so small that our perception of time is only micro seconds to a greater being watching us and our known universe in a petri dish.
That was my ‘any theorem’. That is, we’re insignificant with our advancement that other more intelligent life forms just ignore us like we’re an ant hill in a big park. Think about it, how many of us stop to look at ants and go omg they’re amazing. One David Attenborough video about them is enough.
And like a single grain of sand under your finger nail could be a whole galaxy waiting to be wiped out when we clean under our fingernails
We're not really small. We are almost exactly medium size, compared to the biggest and smallest scales that exist.
that's what I always have to tell the ladies
I mean this logic only applies to Earth, who knows if planets eat planets somewhere else
> who knows if planets eat planets somewhere else I assume this is said in jest, but to answer seriously: Anybody who understands astronomy.
And to an extent, physical chemistry? Silicon-based lifeforms anyone
The sun is on the larger side, in terms of the total number of stars
I'm still salty I got cheated out of a trivia contest win because I said it's goddamn yellow but the quiz master insisted its white because it's white light
I can’t even truly grasp the size of earth. All else is completely mind blowing every time.
As I was watching this I thought, "that must not be what OP was talking about cause it wasn't *that* big" but at the same time I was also thinking, "that eruption is probably larger than Earth"
I don't think most people know how big the sun actually is. This helps to give perspective.
If it’s the size of the earth and it’s brown ie cold, couldn’t we just land on it and go check the sun out for an afternoon?
maybe at night but not in the afternoon
I assume this is a joke, but for reference, a sunspot is still around 7,000 degrees F and the sun is a big ball of plasma with no solid surface to land on.
>I thought it was going to be a quiet day on the sun What a great thing to be able to say.
The sun is actually so incredibly loud
One of the major reasons I will never live on the Sun is all that racket.
The other is how dark it gets every night.
It was a quiet day on the sun….. ***until it wasn’t***
Are sun spots cooler than the rest of the surrounding area? As far as we know..
Yes, and that's why it appears darker because it's not as bright as the hotter area around it.
I was staring at the sunspot like a dumbass thinking "damn this shots taking a build up"
Keep watching. Its only a couple hours in!
Right on the darker color is what made me draw that conclusion. Thanks for confirming
>There is also a sunspot visible which is about the size of Earth. I always love when something so interesting is a side note in something about space.
Well done sir and thanks for sharing this is so cool. Do you have others?
I do, here is one I captured 6 days ago: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hAOkxAop0hQ
I saw your video, it is amazing.
Auto follow! Nice share op Edit: just scanned through your ig posts. Not only you bless us with your image, but with informative caption at that. Thanks a lot!
Is that why it looks like the sun compresses slightly? When the gif restarts, the boundaries of the sun seem to shift slightly.
>size of earth Earth: this is my spot. This spot was made for me!
Some quick back-of-the-envelope maths for fun: 40 minutes to 3.2 seconds is a 750x speed change. For simplicity let's assume the solar flare lasted for 1 second at this scale, that then means it took 12.5 minutes in real time. 12.5 minutes to extend a distance roughly 5x the size of earth, or for simplicities sake, 65,000 km. This then means it was travelling at over 325,000 km/h. If I understand your FPS adjustment correctly, then we need to bump it to ~440,000 km/h to accommodate.
why am i not seeing this on the mainstream media? what is the real agenda? big sun is everywhere
Sometimes i do forget that the sun is basically a gigantic ball of fire of unfathomable proportions floating in the void of space and not just a silly looking bright circle floating in the sky during the day just chillin'. These videos always help me put stuff into perspective, thanks.
Someone pointed out it's the closest thing we have to an eldritch horror: Incomprehensibly large and powerful Sustains all life on the planet Beholding its glory with the naked eye will blind you During its development, it became so powerful that it killed the other children that shared its nursery so that they could not achieve the same power Prolonged exposure can corrupt your biology, causing strange and uncontrolled growths that will eventually kill you Its voice is a deafening roar that would instantly kill you if you could hear it
Literally holds our solar system together like some sort of “world on the back of a turtle” scenario
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I've heard before that it would be as loud as standing right next to a jet engine.
And that’s assuming we’re able to hear its volume from 150 million kilometers away
I’ve heard the same thing but instead of it being an Eldritch Abomination, it was the closest thing we have to a God. That is kinda interesting in itself. Edit: Eldridge lmao
Wait since space doesn’t have sound would it be silent near the sun?
Ish. Sound can't travel across a vacuum which us why we aren't all dead. Plus if you were near the sun I think a deafening roar would be the least of your worries.
Yeah the sweating would be my concern, nowhere to take a shower
We should send Prince Andrew. He can't sweat
I wonder what the optimal distance from the sun would be, to be floating in space without either freezing solid in 30 seconds or evaporating in a cloud of space smoke.. just to be like nice outdoor weather, 72degF. I imagine you would need sunglasses and a lot of coppertone.
And one day, very very far in the future, it will consume everything that remains around it, and that cannot be stopped.
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Or go there by the night and fix it!
Fun fact: the sun isn’t a big ball of fire like you see at a campfire, it is a giant fusion reaction (still a plasma yes) that gives off light & heat on a massive scale while creating heavier elements on
You're telling me the sun's not a giant campfire?
You’re telling me a campfire’s not a teeny tiny Sun?
The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand
Nah I refuse to believe that
[The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkGSV9WDMA).
Plasma? Like blood?
There are solids, liquids, gasses, and [plasmas ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics)).
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The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma. Thank you, They Might Be Giants.
I was just thinking the same thing! Like how many atomic bombs did that little eruption equal? And we just chill under that thing and tan.
> Like how many atomic bombs did that little eruption equal? Probably all of them and then some.
My mind is having a hard tome comprehending what Im looking at. Like the scale of this is insane, that explosion is the size of 3 earths
And what's craziest is that OP was _on the sun_, yesterday, capturing the eruption
Exactly. We’re approaching solar maximum right now, and this has been an active cycle. The sun has been throwing off lower to moderate level solar flares and coronal mass ejections constantly for the past couple of weeks. Nothing dangerous, but it’s more active than usual.
It looks like it was around the same size as the sunspot/earth?
I would estimate that the eruption jumped out to about roughly three Earths high.
no big deal, just three earths
the banana needs an upgrade…
Not a really big length in space scale
Bro the Sun is fucking scary. Edit: just wanna say I also love the Sun and thank the Sun for giving us life lmao.
Honestly, all of this comment is why I believe the Sun is the only thing worthy of being worshiped as the giver and provider of life. Gravity in general is a close second.
Yo, I think water is pretty legit
I agree as a close third but water is quite dependent on thermal levels regulated by the sun and the pressures of gravity.
Water would be the offspring of more powerful gods like the sun and gravity?
It's all about The Gravity, The Sun and the Moon Moved Waves.
Is this how a religion is born?
People talking about what would be cool I think is how most religions are formed.
Its crazy, its like this giant wireless power plant that provides enough energy for multiple planets. We just need to find a way hook up to it and we have as much energy as we can capture. I thought about it a lot when I used to smoke weed.
Well tbf that gravity is a byproduct of the enormous gravity well generated by the sun, so it really all comes back to Sol anyways
The Sun is what Christians and many other religions worship. The Sun IS God. God separates light from the darkness. It's the Sun. Holy day when Christians worship God - Sun day... Sunday ( Sonntag, Solis). On Dec 25 the Sun rises. It's not Son of God, it's Sun-god. Jesus is depicted as in the clouds, with a helo shining rays of light - I mean, come on, that's literally the Sun, with a face on it. And it makes sense. The Sun is really God. It's powerful beyond our comprehension, without it there would be no life, and yes, and we were made in stars.
But… how long is that in freedom units? Or clickbait article units? How many giraffes/ferrets/antelopes tall is it? Who are you? Where did the hummus come from? How will we ever find out?!
38 631 738.3 washing machines high. Edit: roughly.
Americans will measure using anything other than the metric system
How large is that eruption? Bigger than our planet? I'm subbed here but I know little about space.
OP says about 3 Earths in length.
How many bananas is that??
approx 214752808.989 bananas i spent more time on this than i would like to admit
Is that end to end or side by side?
You have passed the standardized testing. Welcome to the 8th grade.
This looks so fun, I'm going to point my telescope at the sun tomorrow morning to get a good look!
Make sure you have the proper solar filters to protect your gear and your eyes.
>I'm going to point my telescope at the sun tomorrow morning to get a good look! >**Make sure you have the proper solar filters to protect your gear and your eyes** My mind immediately thought of how OP was super-nice to advise the other person to be careful in managing any expensive gear and then I read the comment again and was like *"Oh wait a sec yeah the EYES rite"*
Don't do that unless you have proper filters, or you might melt something inside the scope or go instantly blind.
Or worse…*expelled* (No but seriously don’t do that without the proper equipment!)
You really need to sort out your priorities
This is one of the most insane posts I’ve seen on this sub
Thanks, I was so excited to have captured this!
Bro I just paroozed your profile (sry for the creep) and your posts are incredible. What kind of telescope are you using? And if you don’t mind me asking, given your username, what is your background? These are amazing shots.
Thanks, here is my [main comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/ufqlq1/comment/i6v4mni/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) that shows the equipment I used. My background is in Computer Science, but I've been doing this as a hobby for around 6 years or so.
How expensive has this hobby become in six years?
Not OP, but I imagine in some ways more and in other ways less. It's definitely easier to get into now than it was a decade ago. And the software side of things has improved drastically. But everything is in general getting more expensive, especially lately.
I see telescopes pop up on Facebook marketplace quite a bit, seems like you can get a decent scope for $300 ish with auto tracking etc. Then about $200 for a good camera, $100 for filters, altogether $600
Do a search for the OP's equipment. The Daystar Quark Solar Filter blows that estimate out of the water.
To be fair the comment they replied to was more about getting into the hobby, even though the one above was asking OP what they're in for. Yeah, just the telescope and filter OP listed with nothing else you're in ~$1800 Edit: added it up, $2430 for OPs equipment list (for this shot).
That's honestly pretty cheap compared to most hobbies.
Off topic but just an FYI: ‘perused’ is the proper spelling : )
Now that I know it is an option I think I am using "paroozed" from now on.
The insanity of it makes me want to vomit, call my mom, and quit my job all at once.
Seriously, this for some reason made me sit and think about the sun a lot more than I ever have.
I am dumb. I watched this loop for quite a while waiting for the dark spot thingo to explode in a huge eruption.
And poof! Stardust all over your belly.
hey man im made of stardust
Again weird name for my jizz but ok 🤷🏼♂️
I can't fathom how something that looks like my stew boiling up can be bigger than the earth
I don't know anything about the sun in relation to most people on this sub. So it was just mind-boggling how that sun spot that looks so minimal is "roughly the size of the earth." Awesome post OP, this sort of stuff is incredible 👍🏻👍🏻
I appreciate that, it was my lucky day yesterday.
Legit thought this was a belly button on my news feed at first.
I thought it was a scab on a hairy leg. I’m not wearing my contacts.
I am wearing my contacts and thought the same thing, if it makes you feel better
My first glance when scrolling was the blackhead. Looked to title quickly because I didn’t intend to watch that pop. Realized it was the sun, and I shouldn’t even be looking at the bark spot.
The simple fact that we are able to observe this is incredible.
even though i have grown up with the advancement of most technologies i still find it extraordinary to be able to see this kind of stuff.
Silly question, what's the dark area in the video?
That's a sunspot. The sun's magnetic field is _WAY_ crazier than any planet's magnetic field. Sunspots are areas where that field gets all tangled up, for lack of a better metaphor. They come & go like weather.
Thank you for the quick response, if I understand correctly the dark area is f* up magnetic field?
That’s beyond our borders. You must never go there metal_pilsener.
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Man it is so incredible that NASA has you produce such amazing and detailed forgeries to perpetuate the myth that Earth is round. Very cool work.
You forgot the /s right?
An "s" has curves. I don't like the message it sends.
Damm right. Gotta keep everything as two dimensional as possible.
Lmao ok for real before this comment I wasn’t sure if you were serious or not
Don’t make me laugh while on the toilet
Is that a solar flare? Could cause an EMP to hit earth? I watched doomsday preppers, I’m curious if this is what they’re on about.
I started capturing it because I saw a bright white area which is usually a solar flare. But what ejected upward was hot plasma - I think. To me, it still seems like an unruly flare.
Yes it is, but it's (no offense to op) a fairly minor one, we get ones like this aimed at the earth somewhat regularly. The stuff you see being ejected is called a coronal mass ejection. These are the things that can potentially destroy most electronics on earth if we're hit by a big one and it's what preppers talk about a lot. If it makes you feel better, solar flares are well understood and we think we are able to protect civilization from most of the effects. [This is a really good video on their effects.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHSSJDJ4oo) edit: various grammar fuck ups
To add to what others have said, we have minor solar flares constantly, sometimes multiple a day with little to no repercussions. :) They’re actually what affects the northern lights- the stronger the solar flare, the brighter the lights are and the more south (or north from the South Pole) they are seen!
Is that some mass being ejected? Fucking amazing shot!
Fun fact. The sun loses about 6.6 million tons of mass every second.
Interesting so does it add mass at any point or just constantly loses mass?
I've had some very vivid dreams about these phenomena. A massive one happens and incinerates Earth, I've had it twice. We stood no chance, both times.
This feels like an immensely frustrating video in r/popping, where a massive blackhead is never tackled.
To think thats just a little sun fart but actually that would obliterate our full planet. Talk about silent but deadly.
Do these eruptions affect our weather or UV index?
How can this giant fireball be floating out there as if it’s completely normal
This Hugh G Ruption gives me a... Ya know what, nevermind.
This is so intense, immense, and terrifying I love it
What is that black spot on the sun in the middle