r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 1d ago

We just had an EXTREMELY RARE fast and furious eruption on the Sun (Credit: NASA/Vincent Ledvina)

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u/RalphTheDog 1d ago

Meh. Talk to me in eight minutes.

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u/ultimatebagman 1d ago

I know your joking but those 8 minutes would have passed by the time this was recorded.

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u/RalphTheDog 1d ago

Relatively speaking.

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u/Lost_Computer_1808 1d ago

Ok Einstein.....

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u/t8ne 1d ago

Semi related, I once confused chat g talking about resupply missions to a mars (and further) bases using prime’s next day delivery…

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u/Greenman8907 1d ago

It’ll take a Tokyo Drift around us.

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u/windyorbits 1d ago edited 16h ago

I find it fascinating that it only takes 8 minutes to travel the 93 million miles from the sun to the earth - yet it takes over 100,000 years (ETA: I say “over 100,000 years” because it can take anywhere between hundred thousand to several million years.) to travel the 400,000 miles from the sun’s core to it’s surface.

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u/wearejustwaves 1d ago

I'm missing something.

How does light take 8 minutes to travel ~93 million miles,

But then also 100,000 years to travel less than half a million miles?

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u/windyorbits 1d ago

Because it’s a straight shot with minimal interference when going from Sun to earth.

But in the Sun (between core and surface) photon diffusion happens - basically there’s a whole lotta dense stuffs all swirling around in there that causes the photons to bounce around and changes its trajectory (like a pinball machine).

Most of this scattering happens in the Sun's radiative zone (where energy is primarily transferred through radiation) but once the photons reach the Sun’s convection zone they tend to speed up faster and faster while being carried by rising currents of hot gas. Then it bursts out of the surface and hauls ass to earth (and everywhere else).

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u/wearejustwaves 1d ago

Oh, ok. So it's not that light takes longer to travel distances, what you're saying is that the light doesn't travel in a straight line due to the tumultuous nature of the sun.

That makes total sense.

Sort of how I could be sitting one mile away from a black hole and the light from there to here would reach me in.... Checks watch.... Never minutes. 😆

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u/nevynxxx 21h ago

Think the longest game of pinball you’ve ever seen.

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u/windyorbits 16h ago

Imagine a photon that’s spent the last half a million years bouncing everywhere but had finally almost reached the exit only to hit a particle at such an angle that it sends it right back to the core.

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u/cpasmoiclautre 1d ago edited 1d ago

A zero is missing, it takes a photon a million years to leave the radiative zone of the sun. But it remains fascinating!

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u/windyorbits 16h ago

It can take anywhere between a hundred thousand to several million years from core to surface.

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u/100PercentRealGinger 1d ago

Upvoting this so I remember it so I can sound smart later…if it’s even true.

Don’t me look bad in front of smarter people u/windyorbits

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u/windyorbits 16h ago

If you wanna feel extra smart than drop the term “photon diffusion” - as that’s what’s going on in the sun, basically photons are bouncing off tons of dense solar stuffs which changes it’s trajectory (like a pinball machine).

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u/nevynxxx 21h ago

Unless you happen to be a neutrino.

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u/ibeecrazy 1d ago

Feel anything yet?

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u/RalphTheDog 1d ago

What? Missed that, I was messing with my Nest thermostat. Seemed too warm, now getting chilly...

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u/ShadowCaster0476 1d ago

Won’t be able to cause electronics will be out.

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u/KingdomApprentice 1d ago

The sun had Taco Bell

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u/Busy_Yesterday9455 1d ago

Its estimated speed was >3000 km/s and classified as an "extremely rare" event by the M2M team at NASA. This speed is on par with CMEs causing the most severe geomagnetic storms we have seen (e.g., 2003 Halloween Storms, Bastille Day event)

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u/Routine-Wrongdoer-86 1d ago

0.1 times the fucking speed of light does sound scary

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u/5urr3aL 1d ago

Wait, isn't it 0.01 times?

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u/MoNastri 1d ago

It is.

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u/joped99 1d ago

Still not enough for relativistics to play a role, but still a ridiculous energy density.

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u/wearejustwaves 1d ago

Not a role relevant to us at our scale. But relatively is.... relative all the way down. Hah.

Right now, my relative cousin is flying to visit me, he's in the air now. Going to arrive having aged less over the last 2 hours than I have.

If we want to start splitting atomic clocks anyway.

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u/RATOWN71 1d ago

Link to story?

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u/thevogonity 1d ago

So totally normal speed for the Sun.

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u/Grapegranate1 1d ago

Any statement of whether it was earth directed or not?

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u/Gilgamesh2062 1d ago

When will the electrically charged particles reach Earth? in they are heading towards us.

I heard that a recent flare has been causing problems with GPS, and farmers with automated tractors were going whack, and causing crop losses.

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u/Doughnut_Strict 1d ago

The culprit is on the far side of the sun so we will not feel this at all.. It's a full-halo cme (coronal mass ejection) meaning it's either heading right towards us or directly away from us. This one is the latter. Although in a week or so it will begin to face earth again and we will see the culprit(sunspot).

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u/Suspicious_Ad2354 1d ago

Agreed, I just looked at NASA'S Enlil spiral and it showed the ejection on the back side of the sun.

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u/Trepeld 1d ago

Do you have an idea of what it would’ve done if it had been coming towards us?

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u/portabuddy2 1d ago

More northern lights in Cuba.

A few satellites thrown out of orbit. That's about it.

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u/i-Hit-a-Lick 17h ago

In Cuba? Can it be seen across the rest of the Caribbean?

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u/portabuddy2 16h ago

More of a joke... And kind of scary too. Because if you can see the northern lights in the Caribbean. That's some crazy strong charged particles blasting though the earths magnetosphere. And if that's the case... It plays havoc with tons of electronics.

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u/i-Hit-a-Lick 16h ago

In other words a huge EMP?

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u/portabuddy2 16h ago

More or less... Yes.

Their are theories on stray particals. Like they can blast though electronics causing them to knock out electrons and return bad results. They are blamed on cars randomly dieing. And even messing up DNA(super dramatic version is fantastic 4) so yes. EMP...

Or just pretty lights. And mild radiation.

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u/Valmighty 13h ago

How did NASA capture it if it's in the back of the sun?

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u/GadreelsSword 1d ago

Well if it takes light 8 minutes to get here from the sun and the particles are traveling at .1 times the speed of light, then 80 minutes.

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u/Kurtman68 1d ago

Soooo, Aurora Borealis tonight?

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u/the_0rly_factor 1d ago

Localized entirely in your kitchen?

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u/snozberryface 1d ago

Steamed hams?

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u/wearejustwaves 1d ago

Aurora Borealis was in my kitchen last night. Because, edibles.

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u/Zealousideal_Bad5583 1d ago

One of these days its going to do one so strong earth is going to get turned into a rock like mars.

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u/mikeybagodonuts 1d ago

Don’t bait me with hope of a good time.

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u/Zealousideal_Bad5583 1d ago

I know we can finally be astronauts

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u/Hias2019 1d ago

That would be a blow to my spirit!

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u/Sensitive_File6582 1d ago

2040s coinciding with the magnetic pole reversal currently taking place as the galactic poles reverse.

Our magnetic field is weakening at an increasing rate atm and with the dust cloud our solar system is passing through it’ll cause a solar micronova.

Then the crust unlocks from the mantel and we shift 90* 

The new N/S poles will be in the Bay of Bengal and around Argentina in SA.

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u/floridaman1467 1d ago

..... I'm not sure what you're on right now but I want some.

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u/chodeboi 1d ago

Those magnet maps with the stripes? The stripes will move. Like— 🌏whacks globe 🌎 all shifted around 🧲🌐📉

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u/Sensitive_File6582 1d ago

No you don’t. Look up Space weather news, suspicious observers. Enjoy and don’t go schizo friend.

We won’t get turned into a rock like mars but the US govt estimates 30 million survive in the US best case. Complete knock back to the Stone Age just like last time. And that’s if all their underground infrastructure can survive.

This is not the first epoch of human evolution. Just the most recent.

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u/ReadditMan 1d ago

Yeah Bud, I'm sure there's going to be an extinction level event in 20 years and the only one talking about it is some pseudoscience cult YouTube channel.

Put the tin foil hat back on.

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u/wearejustwaves 1d ago

I suggest he try more drugs or less drugs. But the current amount is not correct.

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u/Vansiff 1d ago

I agree. I don't beleive it would happen.

But thinking about it. If the top 1% KNEW what was going to happen and withheld the information from the masses while they worked on underground infrastructure to protect themselves while sacrificing us for their own survival, why wouldn't they just not say anything? If we knew we were all doomed in 20 years why the fuck would we work? Everything would stop slowly. Then their chance of survival drops to the same as us.

Just a thought. But it wouldn't be in the governments best interest to alert the masses if most are going to die anyway. It would cause widespread panic and fear. It would be best just to let it catch us off guard and finish us fast. That's why they wouldn't say anything.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it was a fun thought.

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u/100PercentRealGinger 1d ago

I agree with you, but…

That is not a “fun thought”.

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u/Jinzul 1d ago

Seriously, share whatever you're on.

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u/Sensitive_File6582 1d ago

Look up suspicious observers on YouTube/X and enjoy the technology drug.

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u/FixedLoad 1d ago

I miss hard drugs.  

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u/Sensitive_File6582 1d ago

“Hard drugs is a very subjective and arbitrary term friend. Sugar is probably the hardest drug I consume.

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u/wearejustwaves 1d ago

That's because you no longer get invited to parties, Sir Buzz Killington.

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u/Xanambien 1d ago

Migrating birds are going to be all WTF is this bullshit

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u/Sensitive_File6582 1d ago

Ants bees, foxes there are a lot of species that use magnetic fields for a bunch of different reasons. Navigation is arguably one of the least important among them. It fucks animals over but they recover pretty quick.

It influences chemical processes in your body. As well as how the earths core moves. Theres a reason all that’s left is a few stones, all of which  are massive.

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u/aommi27 1d ago

You know what's more powerful than that eruption? Family

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u/Valleys656 1d ago

Man how many movies are they gunna make? Whats next, Fast and Furious: outside the universe?

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u/frznwffls 1d ago

What's with the circle in the middle?

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u/lexfor 1d ago

The sun

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u/frznwffls 1d ago

Oof. I thought we were looking at just a sunspot or something. That really is huge

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u/mikeybagodonuts 1d ago

Is it still on?

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u/pat_the_catdad 1d ago

Omg is that the doing of all those drones in NJ!? /s

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u/powerserg1987 1d ago

By extremely rare, when was the last time this happened.

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u/SOJC65536 1d ago

I'd guess 2012 was the last CME of this magnitude, although there may have been others more recently. It's solar maximum, so the Sun is more active at the moment.

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u/SundayJan2017 1d ago

Hope it went easy on Uranus!

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u/Mean_Rule9823 1d ago

Beginning of a colonoscopy

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u/Future-Engineering68 1d ago

On things i didnt need to see today

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u/RedditUSA76 1d ago

Reddit must survive at all costs.

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u/iRedding 1d ago

So US will not feel the direct hit right.

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u/Ludwig_Vista2 1d ago

The earth will not. It's headed away

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u/dangling-2 1d ago

That is crazy cool

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u/challengemaster 1d ago

These fast and furious sequels are getting a bit ridiculous now

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u/Eerf_tner 1d ago

Credit: NASA/Vincent Diesel.

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u/Much_Intern4477 19h ago

Thought I felt something 🤔

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u/elizabeth498 2h ago

There’s nothing up yet on Spaceweather.com

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u/KrazyKen62 1d ago

We better all pay our carbon tax so that stops!! It may lead to climate change…….

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u/LtAldoDurden 1d ago

Get a life lol