Dude needs to lay off the beans.

*quality space reporting!

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by arvana.

So THAT'S what's behind global warming!

be nice if he just put a small earth on it for scale , its pretty mind boggling how big this event is in terms of scale.

The best one I've seen in 10 yrs of keeping track

I know this has happened like a gabillion times before Helioviewer, but stuff like this always make me very uneasy....

"It's darker because it's cooler"

>> ^westy:

be nice if he just put a small earth on it for scale , its pretty mind boggling how big this event is in terms of scale.


Not the same event, but here's an image to scale for a similar eruption:

http://lightsinthedark.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/earth_and_sun.jpg

The Earth is on the lower right. It's not normally that close to the Sun, though. Never, in fact.

My God! how did they move the Earth in close for the photo!

>> ^deathcow:

My God! how did they move the Earth in close for the photo!


That's such a stupid thing to say Its quite obvious they moved the sun close to the earth.

doh! obviously right I didnt feel any movement

One huge zit.

@shinyblurry god pre-programmed the sun to explode this way

Amazing, that plasma must be going at around 99.99% the speed of light. Such beauty!

I couldn't watch this past 5 seconds. The voice made me want to ZZZZZZZ....