I can't believe I sat here and watched a 12 minute video finding out what would happen if our Sun disappeared. I tried to stop it from playing, but curiosity got the best of me.
Well, at least we would have a week in the dark to figure out what to do, as if. Or 8 minutes and 20 seconds before we found out our Sun had vanished.
Check out this great educational video from YouTube Vlogger, Vsauce. Be careful, gravity will pull you in.
This video is pretty darn amazing. I love science, the planets, and Star Trek!!! LOL. Seriously though, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory put this together and it's absolutely stunning.
About the video - "
This extraordinary video looks back on the 3rd year of operation of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Since its launch in 2010, SDO's data and imagery have exceeded everyone's hopes and expectations, providing stunningly detailed views of the sun. The observatory has continued to return breathtaking pictures and movies of eruptive events on the sun. These images are more than just pretty. By highlighting different wavelengths of light, scientists can track how material on the sun moves. Such movement, in turn, holds clues as to what causes these giant explosions."
According to Space.com, astronomers have discovered more than 700 alien planets beyond the solar system, and the count is rising all the time. Some are large and hot, and others are smaller and cooler, but scientists are still on the lookout for an Earth twin.
They just got closer, with the announcement Dec. 5 of a planet found by NASA's Kepler space telescope to lie in the habitable zone around its star where liquid water, and perhaps life, could exist.
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- Blade 7184 aka Peter
