Starship Asterisk*

Having just seen this APOD and clicking on the SDO's current image link the filament still seems to be there. Here is that then current image's url link:- [url]http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_1024_0304.jpg[/url]

[quote="chogis"]It looks like a gigantic sperm meeting an even more gigantic ovum.[/quote]

So now we know where our "sun" came from :roll: And are the girls just as bright? Of course - they brought on delight! :yes:

[quote="Evenstar"]So isn't this "one of the longest ever recorded" filaments being thrown off--aimed right toward Earth--going to produce any effects here when some remaining "elements" of it arrives? I mean not on the Earth's surface but interaction in our magnetosphere?[/quote]
The magnetic field is closed, so we're just looking down on a prominence. It hasn't resulted in much material being thrown away from the Sun. It might yet. Or not.

So isn't this "one of the longest ever recorded" filaments being thrown off--aimed right toward Earth--going to produce any effects here when some remaining "elements" of it arrives? I mean not on the Earth's surface but interaction in our magnetosphere?

It looks like a gigantic sperm meeting an even more gigantic ovum.

[quote="minkfarms"]So this filament is 435000 miles long?
Not 93000000 million but it scared the bjesus out of me.[/quote]
Right. As compared with the Sun's radius of 432,000 miles.

So this filament is 435000 miles long?
Not 93000000 million but it scared the bjesus out of me.

The Pandorica will open, silence will fall.

Here's another fine kettle of fish you've gotten me into!

[img]http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100713014508/tardis/images/8/8c/Crack.png[/img]

Looks familiar.

"You can check by clicking on SDO's current solar image."
Result:
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Looks like in the movie ( http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dailymov/movie.php?q=20150209_1024_0304 ) this is three filaments. From the right, there is a dog-leg left and a dog-leg right. Nice plasma bounces between the nodes.

Once again the Borg have been proved right. Resistance [i]is[/i] futile!

What? No Stan Laurel???

Sorry, I simply couldn't resist. :lol2:

Awesome....HUGE.... :shock:

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[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150210.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_150210.jpg[/img] [size=150]An Extremely Long Filament on the Sun[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] Yesterday, the Sun exhibited one of the longest filaments ever recorded. It may still be there today. Visible as the dark streak just below the center in the featured image, the enormous filament extended across the face of the Sun a distance [url=http://www.universetoday.com/96649/huge-solar-filament-stretches-across-the-sun/]even longer[/url] than the Sun's radius -- over 700,000 kilometers. A filament is actually [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120820.html]hot gas held aloft[/url] by the Sun's magnetic field, so that viewed from the side it would appear as a [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140304.html]raised prominence[/url]. The [url=http://soleilhalpha.free.fr/soleil/2015/soleil_9fev_12h32tu_70.jpg]featured image[/url] shows the filament in [url=http://www.astronomyknowhow.com/hydrogen-alpha.htm]light emitted by hydrogen[/url] and therefore highlights the [url=http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/chromos.shtml]Sun's chromosphere[/url]. Sun-following telescopes including NASA's [url=http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/]Solar Dynamics Observatory[/url] (SDO) are tracking [url=http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=09&month=02&year=2015]this unusual feature[/url], with SDO yesterday recording a [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/%20image/1502/sunfield_sdo_960.jpg]spiraling magnetic field[/url] engulfing it. Since [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence]filaments[/url] typically last only from hours to days, parts of this one may [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101215.html]collapse[/url] or [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyIxC1nJPQ0]erupt[/url] at any time, either returning hot plasma back to the Sun or [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110307.html]expelling it[/url] into the Solar System. Is the filament still there? You can check by clicking on [url=http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_1024_0304.jpg]SDO's current solar image[/url].

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