back to article Watch: Sun BELCHES PLASMA large enough to ENGULF 35 EARTHS

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has filmed some impressive footage of a coronal mass ejection (CME) - the first such footage to come from the "Small Explorer Mission" to examine the Sun's lower atmosphere. Captured on 9 May, the video shows a "giant sheet of solar material" about "five Earths wide and …

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  1. hammarbtyp

    Can we define that is standard units

    How big is that in terms of Wales?

    1. Ralph B

      Re: Can we define that is standard units

      One Earth is 24,570 Waleses (by area) so this plasma cloud would be 859,954 Waleses.

      HTH. HAND, boyo.

  2. WraithCadmus
    Mushroom

    The sun, giver of life, shooper of whoops

  3. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge

    Great video at stunning resolution

    The sun has been very active over the weekend too, some massive prominences visible. I imaged one which was still active this morning. Hugely fascinating object, that sun of ours

  4. TRT Silver badge

    Math check...

    5 earths wide and 7.5 earths tall makes a cylinder of volume 147 times one earth.

    1. Lester Haines (Written by Reg staff) Gold badge

      Re: Math check...

      Yes. NASA is just working on Earth hemispheres overlaid onto the flat image area. That way, we only get swallowed 35 times over. Quite a relief.

      1. Evil Auditor Silver badge
        Devil

        Re: Math check...

        The earth is flat, after all.

        And so's the sun, the universe and everything.

        1. TitterYeNot

          Re: Math check...

          "The earth is flat, after all. And so's the sun, the universe and everything."

          Ahem, I think you'll find that the four elephants are very far from being flat, and the turtle is swimming along quite happily...

          1. Evil Auditor Silver badge

            Re: Math check...

            ...and everything except the four elephants.

            Happy now? I stick to it that the turtle is flat as well with all that weight.

        2. Euripides Pants
          Pint

          Re: Math check...

          "The earth is flat, after all. And so's the sun, the universe and everything."

          That's reassuring, I thought it was just my beer....

      2. TRT Silver badge

        Re: Math check...

        Ah... so that aperture window is showing an area about 2.2 earth diameters high.

      3. Uffish

        Re: Units check...

        I find the Nasa system of measurements confusing. Just how many sheets or curtains will fit into a football stadium, or is it the other way round?

  5. sjsmoto

    Rorschach test

    Anyone else see a flaming bird head at 1:29?

  6. Faux Science Slayer

    Our climate changing Sun is NOT a ball of Hydrogen ! ! !

    We live in a false paradigm reality bounded by faux science, fake history, filtered news and financed by a fiat currency....all for the benefit of our current ruling Demonic Warlords. Much like the flat Earth Ptolemaic system we have kings and priests that INSIST on forcing a false orthodoxy.

    See the "Metallic Sun" video by Dr Pierre-Marie Robitaille at ThermalPhysics.org

    Visit the Cosmology tab at FauxScienceSlayer.com on the big bang hoax.

  7. Faux Science Slayer

    "Sun On Trial" video of metallic Sun by Dr Robitaille

    Sorry kids....didn't have the exact link on previous post

    "Sun On Trial" at youtube.com/watch?v=9TOKo7lk9f8

    and at the same Thunderbolt Project 2014 Conference, Dr Piers Corbyn....

    "The Reality of Long Range Weather and Climate Change

    youtube.com/watch?v=6R26PXRrgds#t=31

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