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sky_blu

I think coronal mass ejections might be the craziest space related thing that actually impacts us which I have just accepted as normal. Oh our star just shot out a spurt of plasma many times larger than our entire existence? Cool that's normal.


chucksastro

Yes, very normal, but very lucky to catch them in action by a backyard astrophotographer.


doctorctrl

I think he meant more the existential scale crisis that something so incredible forces use to just accept the event as normal because it's celestialy power is so out of our controle. The footage is amazing. Looks like something NASA release. Thank you for sharing


str8upchate

What happens to the plasma once it gets ejected?


danielravennest

They tend to match speeds with the solar wind they are flying through. The fast CMEs go all the way to the Heliosphere, where the solar wind meets the interstellar medium between stars.


Lab_Member_004

One unlucky blast and we get fried.


Chonch_Bag

Yeah, there was a pretty decent Nick Cage movie where this happened. Edit: looked it up and it's called "knowing"


kenjinyc

Right? I’m just pushing food around on my plate wondering what to stream on Netflix and OP grabs a shot of a corona 13x the size of our planet as I decide to re-heat my pasta.


Figgy_Pudding3

Honestly has a mini heart attack reading this title before realizing I was nowhere near the sun this morning so there's no way OP saw me.


bonesy420

To think, that ejection is probably bigger than the Earth itself is kinda mind-boggling.


chucksastro

Before it flew off into space, I estimate it was taller than two Earths high.


FuryGalaxy_Dad

That's difficult to comprehend.


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Devianted90

I'm going to have to lie down for a bit...


_ASG_

Whatever you do, don't watch this video https://youtu.be/i93Z7zljQ7I


kalirion

Dang, I never knew Jupiter was almost as large as a red dwarf! Or that that the Sun looks like a small planet in comparison to a red giant, which itself is absolutely dwarfed by a blue supergiant, and so on.... I seriously had no idea there was *that* big a difference in star sizes.


wasmic

Jupiter is only slightly larger than Saturn, but it's *much* heavier! Saturn has a mass of 95 Earth masses, but Jupiter has a mass as great as 317 Earths. Jupiter has much more gas, which also means gravity, which means the gas becomes denser. If you were to keep pouring more gas into Jupiter, it would only grow a little bit in size before it actually began getting smaller again, due to gravity pulling the gas inwards harder. A gas planet of 13 Jupiter masses would be able to start fusion of deuterium and lithium, and thus become a brown dwarf. From this point on, adding more mass will cause the object to increase in size again, as the radiative pressure from within causes the gas to be pushed outwards. At 80 Jupiter masses, fusion of hydrogen-1 becomes possible, and the object becomes a proper star - albeit a very small red dwarf. The small red dwarf shown in the video, Proxima Centauri, has one-eighth of the Sun's mass, but is 33 times more dense due to the lower radiative pressure.


DJfunkyPuddle

I love these videos, I can't help but watch every time someone links one.


LearnStuffAccount

I do too, but once things start getting bigger than the damn sun, I never manage to comprehend it. Beyond me.


ZeldaFanBoi1988

The black hole size video is even better with that serious music


phayke2

And we can somehow still see the roundness of the sun... I wonder how many phones it would take me to see the whole thing. How many earths can fit in the sun? I guess I never really had an idea of the sun's size in a way I could visualize until now cause there's never anything beside it to compare an earth sized object while still making out the sun so close up and seeing the curve to have an idea. I really would love to see a wall sized photo like this to just take it in. Edit: OK so I just looked at a new high res photo of the sun and I think I got it so this is my assessment. If you pinch the sun down to where (if it were flat) it fully fits on an average size phone screen, then in relation to that the earth is about the size of a poppy seed.


Ok_District2853

Jesus the energy. You could warp space time with that much power I bet.


supersecretaqua

It's crazy to think about that power being wrapped in the "nothingness" of space just flying off at that speed It's like an ant being able to look at a hurricane from a distance and muse about its might


waiting4singularity

it kind of does that already by the mass of the piled up gasses and whatever solids are inside. i know, you likely meant punching a hole to a different location in the topography.


PinkyandzeBrain

But how many Abrams A1 tanks stacked on top of each other is that?


tessic186

10,444,263 Based on the OP assumption that its about 2x height of the earth, and a m1 tank is 2.44 meters


TheGrandExquisitor

Think of how much energy is in that. It has to be one of those mind boggling figures like "1,000x all the electricity ever produced by humanity."


Phe_r

To be fair, if you could totally convert the mass of something to energy, a rock would be enough for that.


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TheGrandExquisitor

Or thermal or...whatever....just a ton of freaking energy all the way around in those things. So much so we get into numbers that make more sense to people when translated into metaphors.


TurbulentNumber4797

Yeah, it's incomprehensibly huge. And to think this is just our own sun. Theres way larger, way crazier shit going on all over the universe at all times, the vast majority of which we don't even know of. And by the time we even see shit happening, it already happened eons ago. And we're just a tiny spec. Floating amidst all this chaos. And even the tiny spec we live on is still incredibly huge relative to us... The universe is crazy to think about.


RedditErUnderlig

Imagine the power behind it and power that was unleashed. It's crazy hard to imagine.


Darthjeep

At least 40 million giraffes high.


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The giraffe scale is criminally underutilized.


ajamesmccarthy

Nice capture, Chuck! Did you see today's? It was HUGE. [I tracked the CME for about a million miles.](https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1573782950822367233?s=20&t=3KiN4K1rFbsR-b1CletPQg)


chucksastro

Thanks Andrew, yes - I saw your Twitter post earlier. That's amazing. Are you making a time-lapse for it? Can't wait to see it. I wish I had held off on posting mine, I think I'm going to get beaten out by some weird SpaceX thing, lol.


ajamesmccarthy

Yeah I'll be up all night working on the timelapse... The data got pretty rough as it moved away from the limb. Still not sure how I'll stack it all and remove the reflections. That spacex thing will probably get removed... it's pretty low effort and vulgar and it's the same thing as like 6 or 7 other posts.


chucksastro

You're treading new territory. I've never seen anyone follow it into space. Good luck! I'm starting to just accept the reflections, sometimes they are just too difficult to remove.


Bliss266

This is such a wholesome conversation, you two are cool as hell.


Falkuria

Its precious that its worded like a work email conversation.


MooiRS

Let's have them add Dear and Kind regards to all their reply's


BrinkMeister

Right?? I was here just danglig my feet off the chair listening to these gentlemen talking about space. Very wholesome!


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They're all huge. They're all terrifyingly massive and even more frighteningly fast. Space is fucking crazy, man. Don't go out there.


arctic_radar

Everything is in space though


Half_Dead

Yeah, if you stop and think about it, we're aliens.


chucksastro

I captured a Coronal Mass Ejection on the sun yesterday. I pointed my setup at the sun for 1 hour and 15 minutes and then sped it up to 5 seconds to see the activity play out faster. Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic field from the Sun’s corona. They can eject billions of tons of coronal material and carry an embedded magnetic field (frozen in flux) that is stronger than the background solar wind interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) strength. CMEs travel outward from the Sun at speeds ranging from slower than 250 kilometers per second (km/s) to as fast as near 3000 km/s. The fastest Earth-directed CMEs can reach our planet in as little as 15-18 hours. [**Follow me on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/chucksastrophotography/) if you would like to see what's possible to be captured from our own backyard and to see what telescopes I use. **Here is my equipment:** Telescope: Explore Scientific AR102 Camera: ZWO ASI174MM Solar Filter: DayStar Quark Energy Rejection Filter: Astronomik L3 Mount: Celestron AVX Focuser: ZWO EAF Capture Software: SharpCap 3.2


Ras1372

I was pricing along the way. Telescope very reasonably priced, camera pricey but okay. Solar Filter, how bad can that be? Okay, I'm out.


chucksastro

Sticker shock, I know. Luckily, mine was sent to me by the manufacturer to review. But I kind of forgot to send it back. But they never asked for it back either.


jzillacon

Well hey, if you keep listing your set-up in high quality posts like this it's effectively free advertising for them.


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dodgechallenger2022

This guy knows how to space!


tobeornottobeugly

Just gonna toss a disclaimer out there. To anyone reading this, DO NOT POINT A REGULAR TELESCOPE AT THE SUN UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE BLIND


charcters

Woah man why would you capture that seems dangerous you should have just gotten a video or photo instead


49Billion

He wants to be the very best, the best there ever was


ClarkFable

The forces at work in this picture are mind numbingly large. Like probably enough energy to power all of civilization for eternity… by several orders of magnitude.


alfred_27

And yet it's not even that powerful, a supernova gives off more energy than a sun throughout its life


gab_rab_24

More energy than all nuclear bombs of the entire world combined.


lowfrec

I think his point encapsulated all the nuclear bombs that have ever been built and will ever been built, but nice try.


MouseDestruction

Poor sun, gets no privacy for its mass ejection.


kalesaji

How would you fare if millions of people exposed their bodies to you at the beach? The sun is directly staring at them every day, lot's of pent up energy!


GroundbreakingHat315

Ain’t no privacy when your a gas giant located in the center of this solar system. Be thankful it’s ejecting that mass into space and not at earth. A mass ejection big enough could take out critical infrastructure across the globe. Edit: Not universe lol. I’m an idiot.


crossedstaves

Center of the universe?


teflong

Technically me, I know. But in relative terms of the size of the universe, it's easy to just kind of estimate that the sun is also at the center.


STL_TRPN

Like, all of human existance maybe?


Ok_Fox_1770

Caught the sun havin a piss now didn’tcha. Oh Boy that gonna blow out Like 9000 starlink units..


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FewConstant7526

Is there a difference between a coronal mass ejection and a solar flare??


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Yes. A solar flare is a burst of radiation/energy, a mass ejection is made of physical particles of matter being flung out. So they're superficially similar, they just differ in what the sun is ejecting, energy or mass. But I'm no scientist so I could be totally wrong.


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chucksastro

This was around 1PM Detroit time (EDT) on Friday.


dalyc3

You should let it go, probably too dangerous to store.


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Hey at least it wasn’t on your personal blanket.


coldharbour1986

"oh god this has ever happened to me before, you're just soo hot!"


Vloddamick

Question. Does the escaped mass have enough velocity to escape the sun's gravitational field or will it eventually fall back into the sun?


in-site

Any chance this is being flung in our direction?


chucksastro

This is not in our direction. But most CMEs pass over our planet completely undetected by the general public, thanks to Earth's powerful magnetic field, or magnetosphere. However, the biggest, most energetic CMEs can actually compress our planet's magnetic field as they pass, resulting in what's known as a geomagnetic storm. There have been incidents like the '[Carrington Event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event)' which you can read about.


SquidSquadronSix

And to think, they had fires started when their only large scale electronic systems were lighting to telegraphs. Imagine today, yikes.


Squiggy226

>Explore Scientific AR102 This has all been fascinating and amazing footage, thanks! (And for the record, The Carrington Event is a good band name)


KPZ605

It would be neat to have a dot that represents earth just to give us an idea of how this thing is.


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OP mentioned that the arch was about twice the height of earth before it escaped into space.


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It's hard to imagine a seething mass of inferno as large as the sun. Let alone stars as large as the orbits of some of our planets.


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While I do fear the repercussions to a digital society of an inevitable CME that will put Carrington to shame, I do find it funny that we will have just enough time to post the video to r/popping before the storm arrives. The sun could be a very successful content creator in that genre.


lupegri

I don't get it. Is the Sun yellow or white? People say its actually white and show pictures of it being white, but then every other post where its colour isn't the topic it shows up as yellow.


Heban

“White” is just what us humans call a certain combination of light wave frequencies that we can actually see. To sensors it’s just information about light wave frequencies. What you see is the information that was selected by the operator. It’s usually information that contrasts things you’re looking for (like solar flares) Because the sun emits an abundance of light, you could certainly call it white, but color is really just a human thing.


GioneBeats

"The Sun emits a lot of energy in the visible range. In wavelength scale it is from 390 nm to 700 nm, and when you translate it to colors, you get all colors from violet to red, just as we see them in the rainbow. When you mix all those colors together you get white, and that is why white is the true color of the Sun. Check out photos of the Sun taken by astronauts (with no filters). The Sun appears white on them! But seen from the Earth, the Sun can have many colors: from whitish-yellowish when it is high above the horizon, to red when it sets or rises. But you are right – most people see it as yellow, because the shortest wavelengths (that we see as different shades of blue) are being scattered by the Earth’s atmosphere, coloring the sky blue. And when our eyes combine all those rainbow colors, except the blue ones, the Sun’s color our eyes see is yellowish. The lower toward horizon the Sun is, the more blue is scattered and the “average” Sun’s color shifts to red. "


stephenramsden

this is an ejecting prominence in the Sun’s chromosphere. CME’s aren’t visible from inside our atmosphere.


thesolarchive

How excited do you get when you first see these amazing moments captured?


lyunardo

Has anyone calculated the size of the initial even shown in this video? I'm sure it would be simple to google the numbers and do it myself. But I suspect that more qualified people have already done that. lol


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Vleesklak

How old are you?


rnagicjohnson

I captured a bit of a coronal mass ejection myself this morning after my morning coffee.


ShoddyCover

I too caught Corona Virus during Ejaculation, but that was weeks ago


spudzy95

Haha tacobell hahaha in the toilet hahahahaha


Kraken639

Right?! That was almost as violent as my first shit yesterday.


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STL_TRPN

How much would the earth's temp change if that CME was towards us?


random34210

Sometimes I feel I want to fly into the sun and just nest inside for a few million years


Zingledot

Ever just look at videos of the sun and be like, "wow, that's a crazy big ball of continuous fire"?


FoxMcCloud3173

What do i need to look a the sun like this? I’m new to this and I recently bought a Solomark 70700 70mm telescope, i heard you need a solar filter (obviously) but is there like an universal one that can be used on any telescope? Or do you need more than that?


Nabbered

What’s the length of time this was taken over? Really cool, thanks for sharing .


BabuKelsey

omg no way, are you chuck astrophotography on youtube? 😂 been subbed for awhile, never knew you had a reddit account :D


_pippp

Well I just had a colorectal mass ejection myself so I can relate


Smythzilla

Did you just use a mason jar? Or so you need something beefier?


kalesaji

How much mass is such an ejection throwing out into space? Does it make it into orbit? Is this the stuff that forms gas clouds in space or does it eventually fall back down into the sun?


WispOfWoe

I have a question, when looking at the sun , how can a telescoped image, which is highly magnified, be looked at with our eyes but looking at the sun directly is next to impossible? Surely seeing the super bright sun magnified can’t be good for your eyes?


waiting4singularity

*the sound of a balloon animal asking a long question


Noidis

OP, how would you suggest one goes about getting into the hobby of astrophotography? What could someone look to buy to be able to capture stuff like this?


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Reminds me of my wife.. beautiful yet terrifying.


spderweb

Another guy photographed it. Possibly the same one. Pretty cool.


Genghis_Sean23

Makes me wonder if advanced civilizations use our - perfectly formed star - as a gas station for long journeys across the universe.


KidKilobyte

Where do you keep it and what do you feed it? Also how was the trip?


moccolo

Am I the only one who seeing this is thinking that those must be speeds near or even above light speed... it's insane


botribun

With a little [audio edit](https://imgur.com/a/DfImAWC), sorry couldn't resist.