Sun vomits forth giant prominence | Lousy Canuck

Think about the scale of this particular flare, which was captured by NASA?s Solar Dynamics Observatory yesterday. I know it?s hard to imagine, with it zoomed in like this, but this is absolutely immense. Eyeballing it against a ?size of stars? image I have up on the wall, I?d say both ends of this flare are at least as wide as Wolf 359, a distant red dwarf star. And it?s probably dozens of times wider than Earth.

It?s a good damn thing this flare isn?t aimed anywhere toward us. Sure, our magnetosphere could probably shield us, but not without repercussions.

As Troythulu and I were discussing on Twitter when he linked this, it?s absolutely no wonder to me that people would worship the sun, a tangible, massive, and powerful entity, without which life couldn?t exist here. Compared to other religions, I totally get sun worship.

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