Scott Wiessinger produces video for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center -- my old stomping ground, and I did some work with the video folks while I was there, too -- and he sent me links to two very cool videos he put together recently. In early June the Sun erupted, letting loose a huge plume of plasma from its surface which then fell back down along magnetic field lines in a display the likes of which I had never seen before. I created a video (at the link above) which was far and away the most popular I've ever done, garnering nearly 1.5 million views as I write this. But Scott's video of the event is much, much cooler:
[embed width="610"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HloC4xMg4Z4[/embed]
[Don't forget to set the resolution as high as possible!] Breathtaking, isn't it? The video is greatly sped up; the whole event took many hours to complete. All the ...
