Solar Filament – Eskildoodle Photos and Feelings

Here Comes the Sun

Yesterday’s images of the Sun revealed that something was missing compared to two days before, when I had last observed. A large filament of suspended solar hydrogen (see arrows upper left image) over 200 thousand miles long had vanished by the time I took yesterday’s photo as seen on the upper right. Where’d it go?Continue reading “Here Comes the Sun”

Now You See It, Now You Don’t.

A large, perhaps 200,000 mile long, dark filament with a total mass of a billions of tons or more has been visible on the southern hemisphere of the Sun for the past several days (lower right side of the upper image), but it was gone the next day (lower image). Where’d it go? The filamentContinue reading “Now You See It, Now You Don’t.”

Now You See It, Now You Don’t

A large “blemish” can be seen on the lower right part of the upper photo, but not on the lower photo taken a day later. Don’t you wish face cream worked like that? Well, maybe not; this “blemish” is over 100,000 miles long, weighs on the order of billions of tons, and was explosively ejectedContinue reading “Now You See It, Now You Don’t”