Comments on: Two videos of the Sun: a blast and a blast-off

By: Epic « Sore Eyes

Epic « Sore Eyes — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:37:30 +0000

[...] solar flare in close-up, at multiple wavelengths. Awe-inspiring stuff, best viewed at 720p. [Via Bad Astronomy] Categories: General Tags: astronomy, video Del.icio.us Digg Technorati Magnolia Newsvine Reddit [...]

By: Pete Jackson

Pete Jackson — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:18:00 +0000

Absolutely stunning, Phil. Kudos to NASA/Goddard for putting these videos together, and to you for finding them and showing them to us.

It’s incredible looking at this frame-by-frame (by quickly clicking between pause and play) at the big explosion at 1:08 and seeing the shock waves go out.

By: JIm

JIm — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:04:38 +0000

171 angstroms. That is impressive. Never seeing units, I assumed it was 171 nanometers.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:46:23 +0000

Hmm, looks like old Sol ate too many beans the night before,,,

Those blobs falling back to the solar “surface” are bigger than earth. I wonder how much of the plasma managed to attain solar escape velocity.

Gary 7

By: jrpowell

jrpowell — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:33:46 +0000

Maybe NASA can snag money from the National Endowment for the Arts…

By: dcsohl

dcsohl — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:44:20 +0000

Love love loved the first video. My jaw dropped on the extreme closeup that showed the material actually getting sucked into the other sunspot area. Had to rewind and watch that bit a couple of times…

Second video… very cool. I just wish they’d included some sort of mission elapsed clock. I would have liked to know how long the whole video actually was.

By: Aubri

Aubri — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:58:20 +0000

Edit: I found the experiment homepage. It’s a Black Brant stack, which uses a Terrier SAM for the first stage booster.

By: Aubri

Aubri — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:42:25 +0000

Huh. Sounding rockets are a lot cooler than I’d really thought! I’d like to know exactly what type of sounding rocket it was, so I can look it up on Wikipedia…

@12 Paul, The word “lithobraking” makes me laugh.

By: JIm

JIm — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:51:20 +0000

I thought the sun camera was toast, but it seemed to recover well once on the ground.

By: JupiterIsBig

JupiterIsBig — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:37:25 +0000

Thanks Phil,
Those are indeed awesomely incredible !