• Massive explosion as wide as an ocean spotted on Jupiter, the end is nigh, become a Christian before
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[QUOTE][URL]http://earthsky.org/space/astronomers-see-explosion-in-jupiters-cloudtops[/URL] Amateur astronomers are reporting a bright spot on the planet Jupiter, apparently an explosion in the planet’s upper atmosphere caused by an incoming piece of space debris that struck yesterday morning – September 10, 2012 at 6:35 a.m. CDT (11:35 UTC). Jupiter is the largest world in our solar system and a gas giant world. What we see of the planet – its red-and-white banded surface – is only the tops of the clouds in its exceedingly dense upper atmosphere. Comets and asteroids have been seen to strike Jupiter’s clouds in the past. Yesterday’s apparent explosion occurred in the cloud tops of Jupiter’s North Equatorial Belt by American amateur astronomer Dan Petersen of Racine, Wisconsin. He was using a 12-inch telescope to observe the planet. He wrote on the Cloudy Nights forum that a “bright white two-second long explosion” happened just inside Jupiter’s eastern limb, or edge. [URL="http://en.es-static.us/upl/2012/09/Jupiter_impact.jpg"][IMG]http://en.es-static.us/upl/2012/09/Jupiter_impact.jpg[/IMG][/URL]Amateur astronomer George Hall caught a video of the explosion in Jupiter’s cloudtops. To see it,[URL="http://georgeastro.weebly.com/jupiter.html"]click here[/URL] .Another amateur astronomer, George Hall in Dallas, caught a video of the event. To see it, [URL="http://georgeastro.weebly.com/jupiter.html"]click here[/URL] Astronomers are waiting to see if a dark spot develops inside the southern regions of Jupiter’s North Equatorial Belt over the next day or two. As Dan Peterson said: My best guess is that it was a small undetected comet that is now history. Hopefully, it will sign its name on Jupiter’s cloud tops. Similar impacts were observed in June and August 2010. An analysis of those earlier events suggests that Jupiter is frequently struck by asteroids. After all, it orbits the sun just outside the asteroid belt, and its gravity is strong. [URL="http://en.es-static.us/upl/2012/09/Jupiter_showing_SL9_impact_sites.jpeg"][IMG]http://en.es-static.us/upl/2012/09/Jupiter_showing_SL9_impact_sites-e1347362522263.jpeg[/IMG][/URL]Brown spots mark the places where fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 tore through Jupiter’s atmosphere in July 1994. Image via Wikimedia Commons Comets are also seen to strike Jupiter. This apparent impact to Jupiter comes slightly more than 15 years after pieces of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 famously hit Jupiter in 1994. That was the first time astronomers had directly observed impacts between two bodies in our solar system – although such impacts were believed to be ubiquitous in the early history of the solar system and although we know they still happen fairly often today. Since Shoemaker_Levy, amateur astronomers who watch Jupiter continuously with small telescopes have recorded a number of smaller apparent impacts. In the coming days, astronomers across the globe will be monitoring Jupiter for signs of debris left by the September 10, 2012 impact. Some impacts do produce dark “bruises” on the planet’s clouds, but others don’t. According to the website spacweather.com: Researchers aren’t sure why; perhaps this event will provide some clues. Bottom line: On the morning of September 10, 2012, American amateur astronomers who were gazing at Jupiter spied a bright spot that suddenly appeared in the planet’s upper atmosphere. They believe it was a small comet or asteroid striking Jupiter. Astronomers in the coming days will be monitoring the planet for signs of “bruises” left by the impact. [/QUOTE]
Sweet
Praise jeus
[QUOTE=Frankiscool!;37661357]Praise jeus[/QUOTE] More like praise jupiter for taking all of the shit coming our way
[url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/19299984@N08/7976507568/[/url] that's one huge explosion
Being the third planet from the sun does have its perks, it seems.
Now that's a fucking Tank.
amateurs
Get your shit together, Jupiter.
Best planetary shield ever.
Thanks jupiter for you superior gravitational field, taking the big ones for us.
I wonder what it would look like to descend to the surface of Jupiter. According to wikipedia, there's a 50 km thick cloud layer followed by a transparent hydrogen layer which gets denser and denser until it becomes "liquid metallic hydrogen". I wonder what that would look like, assuming that sunlight was somehow able to penetrate the cloud layer.
[QUOTE=soad_jonas;37661379]More like praise jupiter for taking all of the shit coming our way[/QUOTE] He's pulled this kind of stuff since Earth was just a lifeless chunk of rock, it's speculated we might not even exist if Jupiter didn't catch a zillion of comets and debris that would otherwise have hit Earth. I think it's safe to say, Jupiter is the best bro in the damn Sol system.
[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;37661836]He's pulled this kind of stuff since Earth was just a lifeless chunk of rock, it's speculated we might not even exist if Jupiter didn't catch a zillion of comets and debris that would otherwise have hit Earth. I think it's safe to say, Jupiter is the best bro in the damn Sol system.[/QUOTE] And don't forget our own moon is speculated to have taken some pretty massive punches for us as well. Pretty much every larger body in our solar system is bro-status except venus and mercury. Fuck those posers.
Black mesa Source is to be released in 2 hours. Related?
[QUOTE=shozamar;37661790]I wonder what it would look like to descend to the surface of Jupiter. According to wikipedia, there's a 50 km thick cloud layer followed by a transparent hydrogen layer which gets denser and denser until it becomes "liquid metallic hydrogen". I wonder what that would look like, assuming that sunlight was somehow able to penetrate the cloud layer.[/QUOTE] I had an astronomy class last year, and my instructor said that (excluding air pressures and lack of oxygen and temperature) you could just start free-falling through the stormy atmosphere, and you'd be going down and down and down very very fast, but as you're going down, you're slowing down, because it's slowly getting denser and denser, until you're in a liquid, not a gas, and it's such a gradual transition you wouldn't realize it. But you're falling through this liquid, and sooner or later you'd just come to a smooth stop, floating in a very thick ooze of liquid hydrogen. Basically, there is no surface under the cloud layer. It's just so gradual a change from the atmosphere to a denser liquid as you go more in, that you can't pin point a "surface" where it's one or the other.
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];37661992']I had an astronomy class last year, and my instructor said that (excluding air pressures and lack of oxygen and temperature) you could just start free-falling through the stormy atmosphere, and you'd be going down and down and down very very fast, but as you're going down, you're slowing down, because it's slowly getting denser and denser, until you're in a liquid, not a gas, and it's such a gradual transition you wouldn't realize it. But you're falling through this liquid, and sooner or later you'd just come to a smooth stop, floating in a very thick ooze of liquid hydrogen. Basically, there is no surface under the cloud layer. It's just so gradual a change from the atmosphere to a denser liquid as you go more in, that you can't pin point a "surface" where it's one or the other.[/QUOTE] Yeah, that's similar to what wikipedia told me. But it did say that it was briefly transparent once you were past the cloud layer, so, if it was lit up, you would see something before you fell far enough for it to become opaque. Would just be like, a big haze below an orange-brown cloud layer that slowly got darker and darker?
Jupiter is such a bro.
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;37662107]Jupiter is such a bro.[/QUOTE] I wish I had a planet for a brother
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];37661992']I had an astronomy class last year, and my instructor said that (excluding air pressures and lack of oxygen and temperature) you could just start free-falling through the stormy atmosphere, and you'd be going down and down and down very very fast, but as you're going down, you're slowing down, because it's slowly getting denser and denser, until you're in a liquid, not a gas, and it's such a gradual transition you wouldn't realize it. But you're falling through this liquid, and sooner or later you'd just come to a smooth stop, floating in a very thick ooze of liquid hydrogen. Basically, there is no surface under the cloud layer. It's just so gradual a change from the atmosphere to a denser liquid as you go more in, that you can't pin point a "surface" where it's one or the other.[/QUOTE] So if I could hold my breathe forever, I'd be able to dive into Jupiter and come out of the other side by just swimming. Holy shit. [editline]14th September 2012[/editline] Imagine digging through Earth (assume there is no core) until you reached the other side.
[QUOTE=sonerin;37662208]So if I could hold my breathe forever, I'd be able to dive into Jupiter and come out of the other side by just swimming. Holy shit. [editline]14th September 2012[/editline] Imagine digging through Earth (assume there is no core) until you reached the other side.[/QUOTE] Slight issue of pressure though. You might not come out the shape you went i as [editline]14th September 2012[/editline] But damn would it be cool
[QUOTE=BreenIsALie;37662245]You might not come out the shape you went in as[/QUOTE] But... This is my planet! It was made for me!
It must be aliens having a nuclear war!
[QUOTE=sonerin;37662208]So if I could hold my breathe forever, I'd be able to dive into Jupiter and come out of the other side by just swimming. Holy shit. [editline]14th September 2012[/editline] Imagine digging through Earth (assume there is no core) until you reached the other side.[/QUOTE] you'd be incredibly cold and the pressure would fuck you right up
I remember getting disappointed when learning about gas planets. I thought every planet was a brand new world you could walk on.
[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;37661836]He's pulled this kind of stuff since Earth was just a lifeless chunk of rock, it's speculated we might not even exist if Jupiter didn't catch a zillion of comets and debris that would otherwise have hit Earth. I think it's safe to say, Jupiter is the best bro in the damn Sol system.[/QUOTE] I never knew this... wow that's awesome.
Space is neat.
the video was shot on 9/11, confirmed alien terrorists
[QUOTE=HolyCrapAWalrus;37665190]the video was shot on 9/11, confirmed alien terrorists[/QUOTE] The Martians were testing their WMDs.
Thanks, Jupiter!
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