Solar Flare Surprise


	Solar Flare Surprise

tabsey

12-16-2008 3:25 AM

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sol, acne

tabsey says:

Do not look directly at the sun.

Not that bright, is it?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2620fc2d-d22e-4040-8747-7c6787f4e240/B3CF9623-0D07-493A-8360-C87EB51E31B6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/15dec_solarflaresurprise.htm" href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/15dec_solarflaresurprise.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">science.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/15dec_solarflaresurprise.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><STRONG>Dec. 
                    15, 2008:</STRONG> Solar flares are the most powerful explosions 
                    in the solar system. Packing a punch equal to a hundred million 
                    hydrogen bombs, they obliterate everything in their immediate 
                    vicinity. Not a single atom should remain intact. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/15dec_solarflaresurprise.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">At 
                    least that's how it's supposed to work. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/15dec_solarflaresurprise.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">"We've 
                    detected a stream of perfectly intact hydrogen atoms shooting 
                    out of an X-class solar flare," says Richard Mewaldt 
                    of Caltech. "What a surprise! These atoms could be telling 
                    us something new about what happens inside flares."</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/15dec_solarflaresurprise.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/science.nasa.gov/img/85F84589-9A27-400B-A972-96106B65A947" alt="see caption" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/15dec_solarflaresurprise.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><STRONG>Above:</STRONG> 
                    The X9-class solar flare of Dec. 5, 2006, observed by the 
                    Solar X-Ray Imager aboard NOAA's GOES-13 satellite. [<A href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/images/solarflaresurprise/296969main_flare_sxilabeled_HI.jpg">Larger 
                    image</A>] </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/15dec_solarflaresurprise.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The 
                    event occurred on Dec. 5, 2006. A large sunspot rounded the 
                    sun's eastern limb and with little warning it exploded. On 
                    the "Richter scale" of flares, which ranks X1 as 
                    a big event, the blast registered X9, making it one of the 
                    strongest flares of the past 30 years.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/15dec_solarflaresurprise.htm">Such a ferocious blast usually 
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