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Richard
19th January 2011, 22:22
A sheet of plasma more than 350,000 km wide is rising and falling along the sun's SW limb today.
The rainfall is so big, even amateur astronomers are able to photograph it.


http://www.3d-sun.org/swpod2011/19jan11/iphone/plasmarain.m4v
Double click to play video
Celine
21st January 2011, 01:34
This is realy incredible..
9eagle9
21st January 2011, 02:42
That is pretty wild. What sort of implications or effects could an event of that nature have on earth?
Richard
21st January 2011, 03:16
That is pretty wild. What sort of implications or effects could an event of that nature have on earth?

none whatsover :)
9eagle9
21st January 2011, 03:38
none whatsover :)

Well that's a switch.. ;)

Seriously , something is happening out there that doesn't implicate our doom.

Very cool, thanks for posting the vid up.