The Sun as You've Never Seen it

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  1. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    NASA released a spectacular five-year time lapse of the sun on Wednesday to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory.


    The observatory, or SDO, aims to improve our understanding of the sun’s energy and its effects on Earth and near-Earth space.

    For this footage, the team captured one frame of the sun every eight hours from June 2010 to Feb. 8, 2015.



    http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-releases-stunning-five-year-time-lapse-of-sun-213345163.html
     
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  2. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Son worshipper.
     
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  3. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    gimme back my son.


     
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  4. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    What are you guys talking about? :eek::cool::D
     
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  5. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    If astronomy interests you, take a drive down to Schriever and pay a visit to Ken Stage (call first). This guy has a university-grade observatory in his back yard.

    http://www.stgeorgeobservatory.com/
     
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  6. Tiger in NC

    Tiger in NC There's a sucker born everyday...

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    Son of a.....
     
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  7. HalloweenRun

    HalloweenRun Founding Member

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    That burns me up!
     
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  8. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    It should

    it is hot out there
     
    shane0911, Feb 12, 2015
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    locoguano Founding Member

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    Well, that was five minutes of my life wasted... No explosions?!?!? Someone call Jerry Bruckheimer!
     
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  10. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    You must not know much about the sun. There are routine explosions on its surface that easily surpass the power of all the atomic weapons ever detonated combined. Its some violent shit.
     
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