• recklessengagement@lemmy.world
    26·
    3 days ago

    Thought “that’s pretty neat”, and then noticed the “earth to scale” part. Holy shit. Those are streams of plasma larger than continents.

  • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    3 days ago

    Soooo incredibly beautiful. I love how it waves around, and the scale of it is just awesome. It’s crazy that some of those oscillations are fast enough that, if overlaid with the earth, would be absolutely flying across the sky in real time. But by far the most interesting part is how the cloud structure just hangs there while bits of it get torn off and dragged into the surface, and the way it has almost a surface tension like effect even at that size. It really doesn’t look much different from water on the window during rain. Does anyone know why or how the cloud stays suspended like that while the bits get torn off? At that proximity, naively, I would have thought gravity would just pull the whole cloud in, especially if it’s strong enough to pull the bits in?

    • Securus777@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      I’m pretty sure it’s suspended by a magnetic field, just like were trying to do with our fusion reactors. Could be wrong though.