Wow! Imagine 186,000 mph!!! Imagine 5 times wider than the earth!!! Are you beginning to feel small? The size and velocity of this solar tornado is hard to wrap your mind around, but it is awesome to be able to see it!
In Malachi 4:2, Jesus is called the Sun of Righteousness, "The Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings for you people who fear my name. You will go out and leap like calves let out of a stall." Jesus controls the universe, and holds the ocean in the hollow of His hand, yet He loves you and died to save you from your sin. What an Awesome Creator God!
From TheBlaze:
For the first time, researchers have managed to catch a solar “tornado” — more scientifically known as solar prominences — on film. It is large enough to swallow a hundred Earths, according to National Geographic, and is one of many that could be influencing solar storms that send radiation toward Earth.
Watch the footage released at National Astronomy Meeting on Thursday:
In Malachi 4:2, Jesus is called the Sun of Righteousness, "The Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings for you people who fear my name. You will go out and leap like calves let out of a stall." Jesus controls the universe, and holds the ocean in the hollow of His hand, yet He loves you and died to save you from your sin. What an Awesome Creator God!
From TheBlaze:
For the first time, researchers have managed to catch a solar “tornado” — more scientifically known as solar prominences — on film. It is large enough to swallow a hundred Earths, according to National Geographic, and is one of many that could be influencing solar storms that send radiation toward Earth.
Watch the footage released at National Astronomy Meeting on Thursday:
National Geographic reports that these tornado-like events on the surface of the sun are nothing new — they’ve been observed for decades, but this latest one is supposedly the biggest yet:
“The structure is huge … and the velocity of the material is several tens to hundreds of thousands of kilometers per hour,” said Xing Li, an astronomer at Aberystwyth University in Wales, who co-authored a new study describing the vortex.What starts these solar events, according to Discovery News, is not entirely clear, but researchers hope studying what they’ve filmed will give some insight into their origins and how they could influence coronal mass ejections:
“It is a real gem of an event to fire the imagination—and it is a good way to study magnetic structures in the sun’s atmosphere.”
“Prominences are tangled magnetic fields trapping cold and dense plasma in the solar corona,” Li [...] told Discovery News. “These often erupt spectacularly and fly out into space as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and large CMEs will impact our space weather and space technology in a significant way when they are heading toward the Earth.
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