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SDO, (Solar Dynamics Observatory)
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post Dec 7 2010, 12:11 AM
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QUOTE (machi @ Dec 6 2010, 08:18 PM) *
Wow, it's like chinese dragon over surface of Sun or fire whip from Lord of the Rings monster (in first movie).


Great minds think alike... laugh.gif

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post Dec 7 2010, 12:20 AM
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... or this.


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post Dec 7 2010, 12:25 AM
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(nods approvingly) wink.gif


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post Dec 14 2010, 06:15 PM
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The SDO site has a new report called Global Eruption Rocks Sun. It is about the 'Great Eruption of August 1, 2010'

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/scien...globaleruption/

UMSF posts from that day start here

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=162839


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post Jan 3 2011, 06:26 PM
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SDO site is back up and running now
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post Jan 8 2011, 12:27 AM
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7 months of the sun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMfylSkJX08
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post Feb 5 2011, 07:42 PM
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This is very cool

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pr...ew_images_show/

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Physicists, led by a researcher at the University of Warwick, studying new images of clouds of material exploding from the Sun have spotted instabilities forming in that exploding cloud that are similar to those seen in clouds in Earth’s atmosphere.
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post Feb 11 2011, 10:38 PM
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Sun is looking very active today with some interesting flaring.

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/browse...57_512_0304.jpg

and one just a few mins ago:

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/browse...21_512_0304.jpg

Keep on eye on the SOHO LASCO images for a CME.
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post Feb 11 2011, 11:43 PM
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CME appearing


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post Feb 14 2011, 11:39 PM
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Sun is looking stunning right now, especially in the 211/193/171 combination images.
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post Feb 17 2011, 03:52 PM
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Look... at... that...

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post Feb 17 2011, 10:36 PM
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I see Hayabusa has visited the sun, eh? smile.gif

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post Feb 17 2011, 10:45 PM
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A brontosaurus now


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post Feb 24 2011, 12:19 PM
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Another spectacular flare this morning

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/browse...5_2048_0304.jpg

CME too, although SOHO seems to have missed it.
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post Mar 7 2011, 08:57 PM
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Yikes..check out the latest SDO image now.

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/browse...7_2048_0304.jpg

And LASCO http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPRO...2048_c2_512.jpg
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