NASA Video - Huge Solar Flare Eruption on 7 June 2011

[Godot]

[YOUTUBE]UXzYpfLFFes[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Dieselman]

Interesting.

The dirt seems to fall back to the surface of the Sun, what is the gravitational force of the Sun?

 

[renault12ts]

Very very big. And that flare is huge...bigger by many times the size of earth.

 

[WDB124066]

It's proportional to its mass, and in this case strong enough to hold no less than 8 + 1 planets in orbit...........

 

[markjay]

'..the gravity of the Sun at the surface is 28 times the gravity of the Earth.'

From here:
Gravity of the Sun

 

[The G.F.P]

looks hot

 

[Mercsys]

Any one else have computer problems on this date? We had a server mother board die on us.

 

[wemorgan]

There's money to be made in this solar energy mullarkey

 

[jaymanek]

schmokin.... im glad the sun has decent g force otherwise that could have landed on my garage.

 

[Silentdeed]

Beautiful video

 

[verytalldave]

Any one else have computer problems on this date? We had a server mother board die on us.

My TV reception at the best of times is very fringe, and I noticed it was particularity bad just after this. Its settled down now and is fine, but its a good indication of flare activity and general atmospherics.
I bet if we have any SW/VHF/UHF DX enthusiasts on this forum they would have noticed it.

 

[EDZ649]

Cool, looks like a giant zit exploding!

 

[rossyl]

Watching the video its an amazing sight. But when you stop to think about the amount od technology that has been produced in order to capture that video - i find that almost equally amazing.