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Random Prettiness

BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
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[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041206.html]Something you see every day... but don't.[/url]
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  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [img]http://www.solarviews.com/browse/sun/sun.jpg[/img]

    [img]http://www.solarviews.com/raw/sun/halpha.jpg[/img]

    This one is in X-ray wavelengths:
    [img]http://www.solarviews.com/raw/sun/xsun.jpg[/img]
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by E.T [/i]
    [B][img]http://www.solarviews.com/browse/sun/sun.jpg[/img]
    [/B][/QUOTE]

    Holy crap, that flair is huge! Looks to be almost half the diameter of the sun itself...

    Jake
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Freejack [/i]
    [B]Holy crap, that flair is huge![/B][/QUOTE]
    It's prominence/protuberance. (later name originates from French)

    [url=http://www.solarviews.com/raw/sun/sundiag.jpg][img]http://www.solarviews.com/raw/sun/sundiag.gif[/img][/url]


    [img]http://users.utu.fi/silpoh/sanastoa/T195_000625_073630.gif[/img]
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    These would be nice but they're gif animations with total size of 0.75MB so here's link:
    [url]http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_10_28/[/url]

    And here's the big one: X-28 flare.
    [url]http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_11_04/[/url]


    About that pic in previous post:
    [url]http://soi.stanford.edu/results/SolPhys200/Schrijver/TRACEpodarchive.html[/url]
  • NovaCameronNovaCameron Earthforce Officer
    What's with the sunpics? I would go for stars and galaxys. :D[URL=http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~mead/HomePage/subpages/galaxys.gif]http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~mead/HomePage/subpages/galaxys.gif[/URL]
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    E.T: amusingly enough, I already have those pics in my very large "Space" pictures folder. Pictures of the sun always look so amazingly cool.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by E.T [/i]
    [B][img]http://users.utu.fi/silpoh/sanastoa/T195_000625_073630.gif[/img] [/B][/QUOTE]

    This view is quite amazing!

    Seems like the Sun has been pissed lately...

    Wonder what the disc of the Earth would look like in size in comparison...

    :eek:
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    The Sun is always pissed. :D Check out the SOHO site, prominances happen all the time.
  • NovaCameronNovaCameron Earthforce Officer
    Actually our sun is quite nice. You should talk to Sirius that sun has issues.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by NovaCameron [/i]
    [B]Actually our sun is quite nice. You should talk to Sirius that sun has issues. [/B][/QUOTE]

    Serious Issues! :D

    *rimshot*
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    No! Not puns!

    NovaCameron: Stars in general are pissed off. Some are just more so than others. :D
  • NovaCameronNovaCameron Earthforce Officer
    unless we can get a device that makes them calm down....:alien: <- he might help with the designs. or :angryv: might advise us, but don't trust 'em. or :shadow1: ... on second thought, don't trust em either might make the sun go BOOM.:D
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    For those planning to blow sun or doing something to it.

    Here's little calculation:

    Rate of energy production of the Sun
    3.8x10^26 W (38 and 25 zeroes)
    ([url]http://www.usd.edu/phys/courses/phys187/notes/thesun/thesun2.htm[/url])
    Which means 3.8x10^26 joules in every second.

    1 kt = 4.19x10^12 joules
    ([url]http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq12.html[/url])
    Per Mt it makes 4.19x10^15 joules
    And lets assume total yield of nuclear stockpiles to about 10 Gt = 10 000 Mt

    That makes energy output of them to 4.19x10^20 joules.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    That's some Sirius energy output! :p

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by E.T [/i]
    [B]For those planning to blow sun or doing something to it.

    Here's little calculation:

    Rate of energy production of the Sun
    3.8x10^26 W (38 and 25 zeroes)
    ([url]http://www.usd.edu/phys/courses/phys187/notes/thesun/thesun2.htm[/url])
    Which means 3.8x10^26 joules in every second.

    1 kt = 4.19x10^12 joules
    ([url]http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq12.html[/url])
    Per Mt it makes 4.19x10^15 joules
    And lets assume total yield of nuclear stockpiles to about 10 Gt = 10 000 Mt

    That makes energy output of them to 4.19x10^20 joules. [/B][/QUOTE]
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [i]*Biggles clutches his head in pain.*[/i]
  • An ex-SquidAn ex-Squid Elite Ranger
    [I]"When will the hurting stop?!?"[/I]
    :D
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    Actually Sirius isn't very big or bright, we see it so bright just because it's only 9 LY away.

    If stars would be put to same distance brightest stars would be thousands times brighter than our sun.
    Betelgeuse, Deneb and Rigel as good examples. (actually most of the "main stars" of Orion are hundreds/thousands time brighter than sun)

    [url]http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sowlist.html[/url]


    [quote]The luminosity, the total amount of radiated power, of Betelgeuse is 17000 times higher than the sun's.
    p = 6,5 *10^30 W[/quote][url]http://www.eso.org/outreach/eduoff/edu-prog/catchastar/CAS2002/cas-projects/germany_betel_1/[/url]
  • AlaricAlaric Damn kids! Get off my island!
    A strange picture from Australia

    [url]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0412/strange_pryde_big.jpg[/url]



    A strange picture (link found on slashdot) discussions continue as to the cause...
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Ah, is that why the forum suddenly got flooded by trolls?
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    Oh you mean that Microwave beam that is heating up the water out there beyond the dock?

    :p

    That's just a rip in the ozone layer...

    Happens all the time...

    ;)
  • NovaCameronNovaCameron Earthforce Officer
    you just had to contridict me and make me get out my 7 volume binder set on the universe. Ah also Binary :D very popular.

    Sirius:
    LYs: 8.6
    Mass: 2.31 (sun=1)
    Luminosity: 23.1 (sun=1)
    Spectral Class: A1 blue giant
    Temp range: 14,000-20,000
    Diameter: 1.8 (sun=1)
    1,560,000 mi

    Sirius B:
    Mass: .98
    Luminosity: .002
    Class: white dwarf
    Diameter: .02
    20,000

    Note: there are two star classes above A; O and B Rigel is a B
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    As I recall, 2.31 times the Sun's mass isn't that big as stars go...
  • NovaCameronNovaCameron Earthforce Officer
    our sun is average, or a main sequence star, most stars are the same type, size and composition.
  • RhettRhett (Not even a monkey)
    Re: A strange picture from Australia

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Alaric [/i]
    [B][url]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0412/strange_pryde_big.jpg[/url]



    A strange picture (link found on slashdot) discussions continue as to the cause... [/B][/QUOTE]

    So whats the theory? Looks pretty interesting to me, but Im not a conspiracy theorist so Im not gunna say its aliens or somethign like that :D
  • NovaCameronNovaCameron Earthforce Officer
    Was ist das? it's a bloody cloud. what's so special about it?
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    The fact that it appears to be either hitting or coming from that light post, which appears to be emitting smoke, and within which the lightbulb no longer glows. It probably would have been better if the [url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041207.html]description[/url] had been linked to. :)
  • NovaCameronNovaCameron Earthforce Officer
    what makes you think that it hit the light post? it might of hit the water. :p
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Well that's part of the question. You'll notice I said "appears to be". :)
  • NovaCameronNovaCameron Earthforce Officer
    *files it away in the "Mysteries" folder, along with Area51, the Aurora Project, BrightEye, and Nukes-in-Space*
  • The Cabl3 GuyThe Cabl3 Guy Elite Ranger
    aww hey if you think thats pretty check this out


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