check out what the sun was doing today

[pokerfan]

This video created with data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory is just absolutely and astoundingly beautiful, showing magnetic loops on the Sun earlier today (October 22, 2011). Via @TheSunToday Twitter feed, just watch how the magnetic loops jump, shimmer and coil back into the Sun, following a long duration M1 flare at about 1100 UTC.

http://www.universetoday.com/90181/stunning-loops-and-filaments-on-the-sun-today

ETA screencap but seeing it in motion is better:

[krispos42]

1. Latest McDonald's grand opening?

:D


Seriously, it's amazing they can get these kinds of pics 93 million miles away while staring straight at an ongoing nuclear explosion..

:wow:

[progressoid]

2. Ah, the rapture is coming!

Cool video indeed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6SuIPDEG78Y

[spin]

4. Harold Camping has predicted the rapture 12 times now ...

Harold Camping: Doomsday Prophet Wrong Again
Oct 22, 2011 11:20am



Doomsday prophet Harold Camping’s revised prediction that the world would end on Oct. 21, 2011 turned out, once again, not to come true.

According to the preacher’s prediction, which was revised after his May 21, 2011 prophecy failed to materialize, Christians would ascend to heaven, while sinners would be left behind to suffer five months’ worth of natural disasters before the earth ignited into a fireball.

***snip***

Although this is Camping’s second failed prediction this year, a source familiar with the preacher said he has predicted the end of the world 12 times. His first prediction of the end of times apparently dates back to 1978.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/10/harold-camping-doomsday-prophet-wrong-again/

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. "Magnetic loops".... imagine that. Beautiful stuff that. n/t