The Most Amazing Solar Eruption Ever Recorded Is Even More Terrifying In Video

[Pullmyfinger]

Holy Jesuspants. The image was already astonishing but this video made my head spin. Watching this magnificent violence from every angle is a good way to realize how lucky we are to be alive, precisely because of that titanic ball of fire in the sky.

The video of this "magnificent CME"—as NASA calls it—was recorded on August 31, 2012. The video was created by NASA's Scott Wiessinger, the NASA Goddard Space Center's Helio and Astrophysics Video Producer. He told me he started from 4K ultra-high definition square frames, cropping them in the final video. He also included views from the SOHO and STEREO satellites. Truly amazing.

Even more amazing, he says: "you can download the 4096x4096 ProRes Quicktime file and look at any part of the sun in mind-numbing detail." You can open it with Apple Motion or Adobe After Effects. According to him, both "are good programs to view it in." It's quite incredible. Get it here

From a different angle.



https://gizmodo.com/5940957/the-most-amazing-solar-eruption-ever-recorded-is-even-more-terrifying-in-video?tag=watch-this

 

[Virus]

I feel hot.

 

[Transient]

A sun squirt, eh it's only urine.




Seriously, wow, but it is 2012. Fuckin' Mayans!

 

[God]

It's all my creations.

 

[Transient]

:don'twantto-see:/ Stop fuckin' with us!

 

[-b]

We are very tiny.....so very tiny......

 

[BEER]

I need a suntan.

 

[papasmerf]

I need a suntan.

what kind of beer is that??

 

[BEER]

what kind of beer is that??

Not American that's for sure.

 

[papasmerf]

Not American that's for sure.

with so many great regional and micro-brews out there. as I travel I like to try as many as I can.

If you ever get a chance to try Arrogant Bastard, you should.

 

[BEER]

with so many great regional and micro-brews out there. as I travel I like to try as many as I can.

If you ever get a chance to try Arrogant Bastard, you should.

But I am not an arrogant bastard :sorry2:

 

[Jesus Quintana]

I've had pimples that had bigger eruptions than that solar flare.

 

[papasmerf]

But I am not an arrogant bastard :sorry2:

I had the chance a few months ago to get a 6 pack of the Cask Arrogant Bastard.

Aged to perfection beyond words.

 

[Admiral]

I had the chance a few months ago to get a 6 pack of the Cask Arrogant Bastard.

Aged to perfection beyond words.

+ 1

 

[Fatso]

Why are we talking about beer on a solar thread -/It wasn't me:-/

 

[Jesus Quintana]

Because sitting in the sun is hot work.
When you get hot then you tend to sweat.
When you sweat you need to replenish your fluids.
To replenish you need to drink something.
To assure that you take in enough fluids it should be tasty and refreshing.
Beer is tasty and refreshing.

 

[X777Y]

Because sitting in the sun is hot work.
When you get hot then you tend to sweat.
When you sweat you need to replenish your fluids.
To replenish you need to drink something.
To assure that you take in enough fluids it should be tasty and refreshing.
Beer is tasty and refreshing.

Single malt scotch is so much better.

 

[Jesus Quintana]

Single malt scotch is so much better.

Yah, sorry, whatever your poison is, anything with an alc/vol over 10% being consumed in large quantities on a hot day you are looking for trouble.

 

[DannyDeVito]

Yah, sorry, whatever your poison is, anything with an alc/vol over 10% being consumed in large quantities on a hot day you are looking for trouble.

Try the 40% on the Chopin vodka.

 

[Madman]

We are very tiny.....so very tiny......

Speak for youself or Peace woman. I am NOT tiny!