Hi,
I just saw this video from NASA, it shows a solar flare that happened yesterday which shows material being expelled and then falling back down and splashing on the sun's surface. The scientist says at 1:25 "it looked like someone kicked a clog of dirt and it fell back down".. How does this work if the sun is made out of hydrogen? This hot expelled material must be under extreme forces to not dissipate in a vacuum before it is able to fall back down to the sun's surface!
cheers, Jamie
Hi,
I just saw this video from NASA:
it shows a solar flare that happened yesterday which shows material being expelled and then falling back down and splashing on the sun's surface. The scientist says at 1:25 "it looked like someone kicked a clog of dirt and it fell back down".. How does this work if the sun is made out of hydrogen? This hot expelled material must be under extreme forces to not dissipate in a vacuum before it is able to fall back down to the sun's surface!
cheers, Jamie
The Sun's gravitational and magnetic fields. They're quite powerful, you know.
Hope This Helps! Rich
Gas moves like any other material, as mass with momentum subject to prevailing forces. What do you think keeps the earth's atmosphere from "dissipating" into the vacuum of space?
-- Joe
It's "CLOD of dirt" you clod!
Gravity, and since we are near a star, our magnetosphere is a requisite as well.
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