NASA Photos: Global Eruption Rocks the Sun

[Naty1]

"Dec. 13, 2010: On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers knew they had witnessed something big.

It was so big, it may have shattered old ideas about solar activity..."



http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/

 

[Ophiolite]

It was so big, it may have shattered old ideas about solar activity..."

And if I can stir up enough media hysteria we can get the go ahead for that expensive new solar observation satellite that should assure my employment for the next ten years at least. Yes! The Winebago is mine!

 

[Barakn]

If I hadn't read some of Ophiolite's other posts I would have written him/her off as a troll.

 

[Ophiolite]

Thank you Barakn. For those who haven't had the singular opportunity of reading some of my other work, here is a translation of my previous post:

Science education is inadequate in conveying a true sense of wonder about any natural event. As a consequence science journalists and even some scientists think they need to sex up their discoveries.

Worse still, to get proper funding from the guys with the purse strings, some scientists think resorting to prositution is OK.