Comments on: Mesmerizing, towering loops of solar magnetism http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towering-loops-of-solar-magnetism/ Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:12:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Mesmerizing loops of magnetism on the Sun … and a flare | Os Vídeos Engraçados http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towering-loops-of-solar-magnetism/#comment-321344 Mesmerizing loops of magnetism on the Sun … and a flare | Os Vídeos Engraçados Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:11:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=43757#comment-321344 [...] More info about this video is on my blog (goes live Sunday at 13:00 UTC): http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towerin… [...] [...] More info about this video is on my blog (goes live Sunday at 13:00 UTC): http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towerin… [...]

]]> By: Pepijn http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towering-loops-of-solar-magnetism/#comment-321343 Pepijn Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:49:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=43757#comment-321343 The “Strange yet cool VLA time lapse video” article is now up on the blog, but it is in a different position. I think Phil sometimes puts articles up, only to take them down again to fix a mistake or something, but in the mean time Google Reader has already downloaded it. Not a huge deal, but something to be aware of. The “Strange yet cool VLA time lapse video” article is now up on the blog, but it is in a different position. I think Phil sometimes puts articles up, only to take them down again to fix a mistake or something, but in the mean time Google Reader has already downloaded it.

Not a huge deal, but something to be aware of.

]]> By: Sue W. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towering-loops-of-solar-magnetism/#comment-321342 Sue W. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:56:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=43757#comment-321342 So it's not just me, Pepijn! Except I couldn't see the time lapse on Google Reader either. Bummer. So it’s not just me, Pepijn! Except I couldn’t see the time lapse on Google Reader either. Bummer.

]]> By: Mike http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towering-loops-of-solar-magnetism/#comment-321341 Mike Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:13:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=43757#comment-321341 Might be a stupid question, but hey.. Im clueless: Is this video covering 26. - 28. speeded up? Or is this a real-time extract of the video you made? Ty Might be a stupid question, but hey.. Im clueless:
Is this video covering 26. – 28. speeded up? Or is this a real-time extract of the video you made?
Ty

]]> By: Pepijn http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towering-loops-of-solar-magnetism/#comment-321340 Pepijn Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:14:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=43757#comment-321340 Is anyone else seeing this: twice now in recent days a Bad Astronomy article has shown up in Google Reader, but when I click on it I get a 404 error from discovermagazine.com, and the article itself is nowhere to be found. Right now there is an article called "Strange yet cool VLA time lapse video" on this feed in Google Reader. I can read it and even watch the video in Google Reader, but when I try to click through to the blog, I get a 404 error, and the article I'm commenting on now is still the most recent article. Yesterday the same thing happened with another article (I don't remember which one, so I don't know whether it is now to be found on the discovermagazine.com site or not). Phil, have you posted and then deleted these articles perhaps? Or is something else going on? Am I seeing things? Is my Google Reader haunted? ;-) Is anyone else seeing this: twice now in recent days a Bad Astronomy article has shown up in Google Reader, but when I click on it I get a 404 error from discovermagazine.com, and the article itself is nowhere to be found.

Right now there is an article called “Strange yet cool VLA time lapse video” on this feed in Google Reader. I can read it and even watch the video in Google Reader, but when I try to click through to the blog, I get a 404 error, and the article I’m commenting on now is still the most recent article.

Yesterday the same thing happened with another article (I don’t remember which one, so I don’t know whether it is now to be found on the discovermagazine.com site or not).

Phil, have you posted and then deleted these articles perhaps? Or is something else going on? Am I seeing things? Is my Google Reader haunted? ;-)

]]> By: VinceRN http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towering-loops-of-solar-magnetism/#comment-321339 VinceRN Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:18:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=43757#comment-321339 Wow, I go away for a few days and you come up with all this wonderful stuff to keep me up to late on the night I get back. Thanks! Wow, I go away for a few days and you come up with all this wonderful stuff to keep me up to late on the night I get back. Thanks!

]]> By: anosa http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towering-loops-of-solar-magnetism/#comment-321338 anosa Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:52:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=43757#comment-321338 woah, that's beautiful, like watching moving fractals. also, obligatory: I guess you could say that was... ...a stellar view. woah, that’s beautiful, like watching moving fractals.

also, obligatory:
I guess you could say that was…
…a stellar view.

]]> By: Joseph G http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towering-loops-of-solar-magnetism/#comment-321337 Joseph G Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:15:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=43757#comment-321337 I have a question, though. For the life of me I've been having a hard time understanding how field lines can become "tangled". If the lines themselves aren't solid, what do they get tangled around? Where is the energy being stored, exactly? Is there a way to experiment with magnetic reconnection at home (or at least in a lab)? I have a question, though. For the life of me I’ve been having a hard time understanding how field lines can become “tangled”. If the lines themselves aren’t solid, what do they get tangled around? Where is the energy being stored, exactly? Is there a way to experiment with magnetic reconnection at home (or at least in a lab)?

]]> By: Joseph G http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towering-loops-of-solar-magnetism/#comment-321336 Joseph G Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:13:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=43757#comment-321336 KABLAM!! Indeed! :) Wow! Crux Australis: <i>Why does the camera shudder early in the video?</i> Because it's Just. That. Awesome. Seriously though, good question. Is the SDO tweaking its reaction wheels or something? KABLAM!! Indeed! :)
Wow!

Crux Australis: Why does the camera shudder early in the video?
Because it’s Just. That. Awesome.
Seriously though, good question. Is the SDO tweaking its reaction wheels or something?

]]> By: Crux Australis http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/29/mesmerizing-towering-loops-of-solar-magnetism/#comment-321335 Crux Australis Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:03:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=43757#comment-321335 Why does the camera shudder early in the video? Why does the camera shudder early in the video?

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