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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has released a video of a "graceful" solar flare erupting out of the Sun's surface on 2 April. Youtube Video The flare shows up on the Sun as sudden swirls of brightness, indicating the bursts of radiation in an M6.5 class eruption. "“The image shows the flare in a blend of two wavelengths …

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  1. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
    Happy

    Great footage

    A lot of interesting activity has been visible on the sun the last few weeks. Great to watch either on various web-sites, and even better with a solar scope.

    The websites like GONG (http://halpha.nso.edu/) and the like are ideal for those without solar scopes, and/or with British weather.

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  2. Semtex451

    Nice to see Angstroms get an airing now and again. I'd use them more often if I could get the circle to stay on the A long enough.

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  3. splodge

    How many Angstroms to the Brontosaurus?

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    1. Semtex451
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      1.8 buses from memory

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      1. I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects
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        I forgot

        Oh shit!

        When did they introduce the memory bus?

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    2. AbelSoul
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      How many Angstroms to the Brontosaurus?

      An Olympic swimming pool the size of Wales.

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  4. All names Taken
    Alien

    A brontosaurus the size of a Whale?

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  5. Roger Stenning

    I did like

    the music. Sounded like something from a movie. Any ideas as to what it was?

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    1. Wzrd1 Silver badge
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      Re: I did like

      Something we both slept through?

      Hence, the inability to recall its name.

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  6. JCitizen
    Mushroom

    Yup!...

    That explains the disruption of our local internet alright! It wasn't an "April Fools" after all!

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  7. Fizzle

    Hot flushes

    Those flairy fings prolly explain the hot flushes I get. That last "whoosh" was particularly big 'cos 8½ minutes later I had a hot flush. At least I now know not to trust my GP. Menopause indeed; solar flairs frying me vitals more like!

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    1. Tom 11
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      So you telling me it was the Heliopause instead?

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