Sun's surface seen in new detail

Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by foota on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:51PM (#22186866)

Man, it says each of those cells is 30k km, imagine how quickly the plasma most be moving in there for the effects you see to happen.

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by jlarocco on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:28AM (#22189816)

It's crazy how big it is.

That image covers an area 2.5x the size of Earth, but it's showing less than 0.1% of the Sun.

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by puzzledobserver on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:43AM (#22191212)

Does that mean that the material within those structures is moving at supersonic speeds? The video makes it look almost serene.

I wonder what the speed of sound is in the solar medium, at the ambient temperature and pressure.

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by drjesusphd on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:39AM (#22192707)

About 7000 m/s on the surface.

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by FPGAhacker on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:11PM (#22187538)

It says each cell is the size of France. The resolution of the scope is 30km.

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by bravoetch on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:12PM (#22188304)

Yeah but how many Libraries of Congress is France across?

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by markdown on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:17PM (#22188801)

I want to know how many american football fields long it is, and how many olympic-sized swimming pools all that plasma would fill up.

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by hnuser123456 on Friday January 31, 2020 @03:02AM (#22199937)

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by the_dege on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:31AM (#22189828)

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by bregma on Thursday January 30, 2020 @09:17AM (#22191402)

Also, how many Hiroshimas of energy is emitted, and what is the CO2 equivalent in terms of global warming?

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by foota on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:02AM (#22189209)

Lots and... Lots.

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by bregma on Thursday January 30, 2020 @09:16AM (#22191390)

The article I read said each cell was the size of Texas. Which is it?

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by tjoff on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:58PM (#22186949)

Certain that is the case, but is it necessarily in real time?

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Re:Sun's surface seen in new detail by alamortsubite on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:05PM (#22187951)

The same video is uncropped on nso.edu and shows a timestamp. Looks like it's sped up about 100x.

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