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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.

• tjoff 7y ago
  Certain that is the case, but is it necessarily in real time?
• FPGAhacker 7y ago
  It says each cell is the size of France. The resolution of the scope is 30km.
  • bravoetch 7y ago
    Yeah but how many Libraries of Congress is France across?
    • markdown 7y ago
      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.
      • foota 7y ago
        Lots and... Lots.
      • the_dege 7y ago
        https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=size+of+france+%2F++area+of+american+football+fields https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=size+of+france+%2F++ar...
      • bregma 7y ago
        Also, how many Hiroshimas of energy is emitted, and what is the CO2 equivalent in terms of global warming?
      • hnuser123456 7y ago
        https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+of+sun+%2F+volume+of+olympic+swimming+pool https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+of+sun+%2F+volu...
  • bregma 7y ago
    The article I read said each cell was the size of Texas. Which is it?
• alamortsubite 7y ago
  The same video is uncropped on nso.edu and shows a timestamp. Looks like it's sped up about 100x.
• jlarocco 7y ago
  It's crazy how big it is. https://www.nso.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/full_image_with_scale_med_res.jpg https://www.nso.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/full_image_wi... That image covers an area 2.5x the size of Earth, but it's showing less than 0.1% of the Sun.
  • puzzledobserver 7y ago
    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.
    • drjesusphd 7y ago
      About 7000 m/s on the surface.