{"id":37630,"date":"2011-07-31T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T15:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/a-fiery-angel-erupts-from-the-sun-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-07-31T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T15:44:56","slug":"a-fiery-angel-erupts-from-the-sun-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/a-fiery-angel-erupts-from-the-sun-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"A fiery angel erupts from the Sun | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you build and launch a high-resolution solar observatory that stares at the Sun 24 hours a day, you’re bound to catch some pretty cool stuff. As proof, check out this video of a stunning<\/em> prominence erupting from the Sun’s surface on July 12, 2011, as seen by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory<\/a>:<\/p>

[Make sure you set the resolution to at least 720p.]<\/p>

That’s really graceful, especially considering that tower reached the staggering height of about 150,000 km (90,000 miles) above the Sun in just a few minutes! <\/p>

The gas on the Sun is ionized, which means it’s had one or more electrons ripped away from its atoms. Technically called a plasma, this makes it sensitive to the Sun’s strong magnetic forces. That becomes really obvious after it starts to collapse; it doesn’t follow a ballistic trajectory like you’d expect (the path a ball thrown up in the air would follow), but instead flows along the Sun’s magnetic field lines. This video is in the ultraviolet, where such a plasma glows brightly.<\/p>

For a moment there, just at its peak, it coincidentally looks like a classic angel with wings spread. Of course, once the angel dissolves it forms more of ...<\/p>

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