Plasma falling to the surface of the sun.

2 years ago by Wilshire to c/interestingasfuck

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35856987

Another cloud free day in Scotland let me catch almost 9 hours of this huge and lively prom. Taken with my home made 90mm modded Coronado PST and DMK21 camera. Software: CdC, Eqmod, DSSR, AutoStakkert!, Wavesharp, DVS, Shotcut and Gimp.

David Wilson on April 8, 2025 @ Inverness, Scotland

https://spaceweathergallery2.com/...

recklessengagement 27 points 2 years ago

Thought "that's pretty neat", and then noticed the "earth to scale" part. Holy shit. Those are streams of plasma larger than continents.

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motor_spirit 11 points 2 years ago

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Septimaeus 2 points 2 years ago

Made me think of this song by They Might Be Giants (which apparently isn’t their only song about the sun lol) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3JdWlSF195Y

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Zaraki42 12 points 2 years ago

The "Earth to Scale" in the top left corner is terrifying...

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mfed1122 9 points 2 years ago

Soooo incredibly beautiful. I love how it waves around, and the scale of it is just awesome. It's crazy that some of those oscillations are fast enough that, if overlaid with the earth, would be absolutely flying across the sky in real time. But by far the most interesting part is how the cloud structure just hangs there while bits of it get torn off and dragged into the surface, and the way it has almost a surface tension like effect even at that size. It really doesn't look much different from water on the window during rain. Does anyone know why or how the cloud stays suspended like that while the bits get torn off? At that proximity, naively, I would have thought gravity would just pull the whole cloud in, especially if it's strong enough to pull the bits in?

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Securus777 4 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure it's suspended by a magnetic field, just like were trying to do with our fusion reactors. Could be wrong though.

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Celestial6370 2 points 2 years ago

https://youtu.be/IxnqrEBxmm4

This has a good visualization of how turbulent the suns magnetic fields are after watching how they move this suspension in a magnetic field makes more sense to me. (If that's what's happening I am not an astrophysicist)

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Glitch 7 points 2 years ago

That's the coolest lava lamp I've seen yet

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scytale 5 points 2 years ago

The scale is mindblowing.

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YungOnions 3 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/...

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ieatpwns 3 points 2 years ago

Why don’t we just go to the sun and put some of that in a tokamak?

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