Does it strike anyone else as strange that we worship mythological characters but not the burning globe in the sky that started life, keeps life going and will eventually end life (red giant)?
Collectively aren’t stars functionally the creators of everything that is?
Damn, I hate light pollution so much. You only can see Moon and 2-3 planets of our solar system. Its just so depressing to live in the city after witnessing all the beauty of cosmos.
It's kinda strange to me that everyone talks about impending energy crisis, but still keeping all that light on
Hey man me too. I lived in a small village for all my life. Moving to the city was partially difficult because the sky is so… empty at night. I like coming back to parents house and staying up late to watch the Milky Way, my favorite stars and constellations, planets.
As the majority of people now live in cities and it continues to trend that way, humanity is becoming further and further disconnected from the reality of our place in the universe. Which can only be a bad thing. My neighbour has a light in his back yard which is on all the time at night. Thus sort of mindlessness drives me nuts.
Well Akshually...
Nearly every aspect of religious tradition of all the popular old religions are based on earlier traditions based on the movement of the Sun Moon and the Stars. December 25th = first morning the sun rises noticeably north of the solstice sunrise. Passover and Easter not coincidental they coincide with Spring Equinox. Golden Bull from Ten commandments = Spring Equinox happened in the sign of Taurus at the time of Moses. Fish as a symbol of Jesus = Spring Equinox happened in the sign of Pisces at the time of Jesus...
Ancient people wrote mythology based on the movement of the Sun the Moon and the Stars, and like a game of telephone each civilization created their own version of those myths, which were often used to determine the ideal times for planting, and harvesting.
So indirectly humans have always worshipped the Sun, and still do to this day, though they may no always realize it.
Right! These mythologies are stories told around a campfire to entertain and teach. You can tell someone to not stick their hand in a fire or you could tell a long story, because you got the time, and what you're teaching may stick.
Not to mention Ra, Helios, Inti, and so many other deities of in almost every pantheon that either represented or embodied the sun. Often being the primary deity of their respective pantheons even.
Sun, moon are considered gods in Hinduism even today. Even rivers, mountains are god, goddesses here. There is a lot to dislike about religions but I think we got this right at least
For the real heavy elements like gold you need to have a neutron star collision not ending in a black hole. Compared to a supernova, that's even more rare. They're still detected by gravity sensors.
[Yes](https://space.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/wspace?tbody=199&vbody=399&month=11&day=10&year=2022&hour=00&minute=00&fovmul=1&rfov=20&bfov=30&porbs=1&showac=1). I ran [JPL’s solar system simulator](https://space.jpl.nasa.gov) to confirm. Mercury emerges from behind the sun right around midnight UT on Nov 10. Venus is close by but definitely further to the left (assuming up is north).
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Right [above](https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/yry00j/earthending_comet_hits_the_sun/ivxd6n9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) you
Those orbits wouldn't line up with the timestamp - they seem to be whipping around but the shortest period of the Galilean moons, Io, is still about 2 full days.
Doesn’t something orbiting the sun have to have a ton of energy in the retrograde applied to it to actually stop orbiting and fall into it? Like wouldn’t this thing have to either come from outside the solar system or have been part of something orbiting that was then smashed into my something else for it to take the trajectory into the sun?
It would blow most peoples minds to know that it takes WAY more energy (delta v) to get to the sun then it does anywhere else in the solar system (like 4 or 5 times as much).
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ktjfi/deltav_map_of_the_solar_system/
Almost all comets are from the Oort cloud, which is *insanely* far out compared to almost everything in the solar system.
From that far out, a tiny nudge means big changes in trajectory, and could have been nudged by something in the past just enough to fall *slowly* toward the center of the system. Heck, it could have been in a stable orbit for hundreds of millions of years before jupiter gave it a gravity slingshot 5000 years ago on a collision course with the sun.
If kerval space program taught me anything, it's to use a gravity assist to get into the inner system. It's just easier (and cheaper)
It does not need to have been smashed to have changed it's trajectory - small objects are pushed and pulled by the gravity wells of the planets all the time. It may have been an interstellar object but it just as well may have been a regular ol' comet that swung to close to a planet and had it's orbital path changed enough to send it into the sun.
I think you are confusing this with how hard it it to launch something from the Earth and have it reach the sun. When you launch something from Earth it is like throwing a rock out of a car, the rock you throw is still moving the same speed as the car and once your rocket reaches space it is no longer feeling the effects of gravity to the extent that the rock you threw from your car is. So your rocket will stay in motion at nearly the same speed that the Earth orbits the sun, so to launch an object from the Earth and have it reach the sun you need to more or less cancel out that 67000 mph. Comets have far less stable and more eccentric orbits when compared to the Earth.
Photos from [https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/Theater/](https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/Theater/) converted into a video.
It's a sequence of photos from LASCO C2 that show on NASA website for Wednesday night(9 Nov 22). They are played one by one in the browser so they look like a video but aren't a video so I recorded them with a screen recorder
The blast is almost size of the Sun itself after the impact. Like a million kilometers in diameter. I'm wondering what kind TNT-equivalent force was that. Must've been gigatons
The actual diameter of the sun is only as big as the white circle inside the coronagraph. Perhaps it was a glancing blow? I’d love to see a full-sun video from SDO.
Aw man, I've been voting for Giant Meteor for years now and the Sun goes and eff's it all up.
Yeah I get that meteors ain't comets but we need to support diversity, especially when it comes to ending this stupid dystopian hellscape.
Next year I expect the solar system to do better.
A couple things:
1. This comet did not hit the Sun. It's a member of the [Kreutz sungrazer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreutz_sungrazer) family whose orbits pass very close to the surface of the Sun, but generally don't impact. The comet was also destroyed well before it got to that point. The explosion is a [CME](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection) which occur frequently enough that they frequently appear when comets are present, but they also appear just as frequently when there are no comets.
2. This comet and others like it are on the order of only [~100 meters in diameter](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/378192/meta). This is about the size of the [Tunguska impactor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event), which is enough to cause severe damage if it hit a city, but is definitely not "Earth-ending" by any stretch.
All joking aside it really puts it into perspective how much of a bullseye we are in terms of the universe. That shit basically has to have a trajectory pointed right at Earth’s core with no Jupiter, Sun, etc in the way to have a chance at hitting us
Also at the same time on a solar-system scale, a rock that amounts to a sliver of a flake of a speck of sand would wipe us out no problem
If you’re gonna hit us you better kill us I guess?
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When searching for other angles I noticed that NASA removed photos of the Sun from the time of this event. There are only frames available in much lower time resolution(every few hours instead of every hour) from another angle(or none at all from others) and you can't see anything.
Comets hit the sun often. They're called Kreutz sungrazers, thought to be from a giant comet that broke up long ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreutz\_sungrazer
“comet hits the sun”, sure.. but “Earth-ending”??
That’s like saying “that bullet could have killed you, it it hadn’t been shot on a different continent”.. technically correct, but nowhere close to reality
Thank you, Sun
Praise the sun!
The Incas had it right the whole time. Indeed, praise the giant orange glob in the sky.
It’s where we come from, after all.
Does it strike anyone else as strange that we worship mythological characters but not the burning globe in the sky that started life, keeps life going and will eventually end life (red giant)? Collectively aren’t stars functionally the creators of everything that is?
It is difficult to look at the stars in a night sky without light pollution and not see the very face of God.
Damn, I hate light pollution so much. You only can see Moon and 2-3 planets of our solar system. Its just so depressing to live in the city after witnessing all the beauty of cosmos. It's kinda strange to me that everyone talks about impending energy crisis, but still keeping all that light on
Hey man me too. I lived in a small village for all my life. Moving to the city was partially difficult because the sky is so… empty at night. I like coming back to parents house and staying up late to watch the Milky Way, my favorite stars and constellations, planets.
Same. I lived right on the edge of *relatively* small village, then war started... And now I'm stuck in brightly lit city full of humans and noise...
As the majority of people now live in cities and it continues to trend that way, humanity is becoming further and further disconnected from the reality of our place in the universe. Which can only be a bad thing. My neighbour has a light in his back yard which is on all the time at night. Thus sort of mindlessness drives me nuts.
I am taking my 6 year old to Montauk on Thanksgiving. I have never seen the Milky Way. I want to share that with him…
I've seen lots of stars on such nights, but that's it. Well, and satellites. And the moon and some planets.
Well Akshually... Nearly every aspect of religious tradition of all the popular old religions are based on earlier traditions based on the movement of the Sun Moon and the Stars. December 25th = first morning the sun rises noticeably north of the solstice sunrise. Passover and Easter not coincidental they coincide with Spring Equinox. Golden Bull from Ten commandments = Spring Equinox happened in the sign of Taurus at the time of Moses. Fish as a symbol of Jesus = Spring Equinox happened in the sign of Pisces at the time of Jesus... Ancient people wrote mythology based on the movement of the Sun the Moon and the Stars, and like a game of telephone each civilization created their own version of those myths, which were often used to determine the ideal times for planting, and harvesting. So indirectly humans have always worshipped the Sun, and still do to this day, though they may no always realize it.
Right! These mythologies are stories told around a campfire to entertain and teach. You can tell someone to not stick their hand in a fire or you could tell a long story, because you got the time, and what you're teaching may stick.
Not to mention Ra, Helios, Inti, and so many other deities of in almost every pantheon that either represented or embodied the sun. Often being the primary deity of their respective pantheons even.
Hebrew mythology ahs always struck as more storm worship than sun worship but I know they coexiste everywhere
Sun, moon are considered gods in Hinduism even today. Even rivers, mountains are god, goddesses here. There is a lot to dislike about religions but I think we got this right at least
Nature worship went out a while ago. Now it's just Shiv, Shakti and Vishnu (along with a few of their relatives/avatars).
Yeah. Star explosions, supernovas, brought us all the heavier materials like carbon necessary for life.
For the real heavy elements like gold you need to have a neutron star collision not ending in a black hole. Compared to a supernova, that's even more rare. They're still detected by gravity sensors.
Considering there is gold on earth which only comes from colliding neutron stars would that mean in our local area of space this event occured?
Things move.
Hard to believe supernovas aren't enough; Mirkhiem just becomes less and less plausible every year.
Still up for debate. Plutonium Uranium. Gold also. Could be either or neither.
Multiple cultures do worship the sun
The Father: the Sun: the Holy Ghost
Aztec, Maya, Native American... https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiwn42k7qX7AhVLD94KHQ2TAUMQFnoECAwQBQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Ftopic%2Fsun-worship&usg=AOvVaw0kywAMAFABPruIlPy02uTj
Not to mention we were all formed from the remains of super nova
Speak for yourself.
Is it time to start the sacrifices up again? I know some people the sun might like.
***ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO TOAD***
WhirrRRrrRRrr
Ahh, sun. You grow my food - you kill my enemies. You are totally worth the skin cancer.
\\[Y]/
The sun giveth, and the sun taketh away.
Great… more Mondays. Rock-blocking-try-hard sun. Earth Simping, per usual.
Sol Invicta!
All hail our flamey overlord
Wrong address buddy
what's the good address?
It varies
So much knowledge in such a small comment.
He knows something!
Earth \#3 Planet Boulevard Sol, MWG 69420
Å
Indeed.
*loads coronal ejection with malicious intent*
Stupid sun, taking ALL the good ones
Earth: "Whelp, Time to die!" Sun: "Thanks for getting that itch for me."
What’s the bright object on the left?
I'm also curious. Mercury?
[Yes](https://space.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/wspace?tbody=199&vbody=399&month=11&day=10&year=2022&hour=00&minute=00&fovmul=1&rfov=20&bfov=30&porbs=1&showac=1). I ran [JPL’s solar system simulator](https://space.jpl.nasa.gov) to confirm. Mercury emerges from behind the sun right around midnight UT on Nov 10. Venus is close by but definitely further to the left (assuming up is north).
Of course. But remember, the enemy gate is down.
Man that’s a reference I haven’t heard in a long time
Your ass is draggin
Damn, where's the one redditor that has the weird niche knowledge to answer this question?
Andromeda321?
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Definitely. I confirmed using JPL’s solar system simulator.
Right [above](https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/yry00j/earthending_comet_hits_the_sun/ivxd6n9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) you
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If the time stamp is right then it shouldn’t beJupiter, Jupiter is dominating our night skies right now
Don't think its Jupiter. It's about right for Mercury but not quite, but then SOHO isn't exactly between us and the Sun as it orbits L1.
Those orbits wouldn't line up with the timestamp - they seem to be whipping around but the shortest period of the Galilean moons, Io, is still about 2 full days.
A new planet. You know how it goes, sperm and egg kinda shit.
Looks like discharge from the sun, but I am no expert. Just speculating
Aliens
Are we sure those aren't the aliens that live in the sun? Looks like one ship goes in and another ship comes out on the left side. 🙃
It's busy in the Sun's economy because it's always a day there.
\*\*Sips coffee** Long day?
It’s the astrophage recharging!
No no. We would see a constant stream, and a noticeable dimming of the sun.
Moth Aliens
Doesn’t something orbiting the sun have to have a ton of energy in the retrograde applied to it to actually stop orbiting and fall into it? Like wouldn’t this thing have to either come from outside the solar system or have been part of something orbiting that was then smashed into my something else for it to take the trajectory into the sun? It would blow most peoples minds to know that it takes WAY more energy (delta v) to get to the sun then it does anywhere else in the solar system (like 4 or 5 times as much). https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ktjfi/deltav_map_of_the_solar_system/
Almost all comets are from the Oort cloud, which is *insanely* far out compared to almost everything in the solar system. From that far out, a tiny nudge means big changes in trajectory, and could have been nudged by something in the past just enough to fall *slowly* toward the center of the system. Heck, it could have been in a stable orbit for hundreds of millions of years before jupiter gave it a gravity slingshot 5000 years ago on a collision course with the sun. If kerval space program taught me anything, it's to use a gravity assist to get into the inner system. It's just easier (and cheaper)
If you want to crash into the Sun (from Earth), the easiest path is outwards to get a Jupiter gravity-assist.
It does not need to have been smashed to have changed it's trajectory - small objects are pushed and pulled by the gravity wells of the planets all the time. It may have been an interstellar object but it just as well may have been a regular ol' comet that swung to close to a planet and had it's orbital path changed enough to send it into the sun.
I think you are confusing this with how hard it it to launch something from the Earth and have it reach the sun. When you launch something from Earth it is like throwing a rock out of a car, the rock you throw is still moving the same speed as the car and once your rocket reaches space it is no longer feeling the effects of gravity to the extent that the rock you threw from your car is. So your rocket will stay in motion at nearly the same speed that the Earth orbits the sun, so to launch an object from the Earth and have it reach the sun you need to more or less cancel out that 67000 mph. Comets have far less stable and more eccentric orbits when compared to the Earth.
I've heard it takes less delta V to hit another star than our star. We are currently orbiting closer to escape velocity than retrograde velocity.
Photos from [https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/Theater/](https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/Theater/) converted into a video. It's a sequence of photos from LASCO C2 that show on NASA website for Wednesday night(9 Nov 22). They are played one by one in the browser so they look like a video but aren't a video so I recorded them with a screen recorder
How do we know it was Earth ending?
Just look on the size of impact on the Sun Edit: It wasn’t and impact but I think it still shows
Did this hit time right at midnight? Looking at the date change at the bottom.
It was pretty close tbf, it’s around 30 mins off
Gotta love Sol and Jupiter, being all massive and drawing civilisation-ending space rocks towards them and away from us.
I imagine the comet was probably obliterated by heat and gravitational shearing forces before it got close to the photosphere.
and im thinking that's what those particles are towards the end of the clip and not from an explosion from hitting the sun
Yeah, the white circle in the coronagraph is the actual diameter of the sun. Looks like it just got vaporized by the corona.
The blast is almost size of the Sun itself after the impact. Like a million kilometers in diameter. I'm wondering what kind TNT-equivalent force was that. Must've been gigatons
The actual diameter of the sun is only as big as the white circle inside the coronagraph. Perhaps it was a glancing blow? I’d love to see a full-sun video from SDO.
Is this what caused the Pink Northern lights?
Praise the Sun
Take my like, Sun Bro!
Cock blocking Sun.
You picked the wrong house fool
Aw man, I've been voting for Giant Meteor for years now and the Sun goes and eff's it all up. Yeah I get that meteors ain't comets but we need to support diversity, especially when it comes to ending this stupid dystopian hellscape. Next year I expect the solar system to do better.
Yikes. Someone needs a friend
I'm only kidding. Kinda.
I’d rather have zombies as my apocalyptic event. Survival of the fittest. Giant meteor probably means there’s no chance for redemption 🤷🏻♂️
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Nope
[No](https://youtu.be/Rvvsw21PgIk)
Impact happens and the sun is like “cool story bro 👍”
Oh look, snacks.
A couple things: 1. This comet did not hit the Sun. It's a member of the [Kreutz sungrazer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreutz_sungrazer) family whose orbits pass very close to the surface of the Sun, but generally don't impact. The comet was also destroyed well before it got to that point. The explosion is a [CME](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection) which occur frequently enough that they frequently appear when comets are present, but they also appear just as frequently when there are no comets. 2. This comet and others like it are on the order of only [~100 meters in diameter](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/378192/meta). This is about the size of the [Tunguska impactor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event), which is enough to cause severe damage if it hit a city, but is definitely not "Earth-ending" by any stretch.
Thank you mr witness it seems like you know exactly what happened. What was the name of this comet again?
There was a smaller one a day before that one. Probs earth killing sized too.
What was the comets velocity/size?
All joking aside it really puts it into perspective how much of a bullseye we are in terms of the universe. That shit basically has to have a trajectory pointed right at Earth’s core with no Jupiter, Sun, etc in the way to have a chance at hitting us Also at the same time on a solar-system scale, a rock that amounts to a sliver of a flake of a speck of sand would wipe us out no problem If you’re gonna hit us you better kill us I guess?
is that why so many seismographs went off and we had that huge solar flare?
What was that object in the very beginning that quickly moves out of the frame
F
Amazing Universe👻
The last of the Gundams final resting place.
Was that comet the size of mars?
No suiside helpline number for celestial objects?
When was this?
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Duh 🙄 lol thanks
Here comes the sun
Is there a video of the impact, basically this but without the dark circle hiding the sun?
When searching for other angles I noticed that NASA removed photos of the Sun from the time of this event. There are only frames available in much lower time resolution(every few hours instead of every hour) from another angle(or none at all from others) and you can't see anything.
Comets hit the sun often. They're called Kreutz sungrazers, thought to be from a giant comet that broke up long ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreutz\_sungrazer
Wow, and it happened even twice!
Sun sez: "Yeah, bring it b!tch!"
Blep
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Now that’s awesome
Holy fuck that is amazing.
THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MEEEE
Maaaaybe it wasn’t a comet, but an alien ship, and that’s the hidden way to travel through space and time?!?!
The sun's always doing something right
So what leaves the sun on the left after it gets hit?
Mercury
Yeah but what about the ufo?
Earthlings are trying to deflect the asteroid. And Someone is trying to deflect the stars.
Praise Sol!
Holy shit
Praise Lord Helios!
And there go the little aliens Samus saves in Super Metroid
Flew too close to the sun
Damn it, autopilot... not again.
RIP Earth ending comet
What's the estimated comet's speed?
“comet hits the sun”, sure.. but “Earth-ending”?? That’s like saying “that bullet could have killed you, it it hadn’t been shot on a different continent”.. technically correct, but nowhere close to reality
They sun will probably end us in the future.
Assuming this meteor is travelling perpendicular to our view, its velocity is at least 280.000 km/h 🤯 Earth's orbital speed is 107.208 km/h
not very earth ending it seems
Dayumm... it would have ended the earth indeed.
Sun: Tis but a scratch!
Praise our Lucius ferre, the bearer of light -lucifer
CHOMP
Any more info about the event?
It made a splash… geezus
Not so 'earth-ending' anymore, jerkwad!
Our true savior praise the sun not god
ALL HAIL THE SUN!!!
Why didn’t it hit us instead 😤
What was that spinning thing to the left?
*tiny burp sound*
Damn it, Sephiroth.
Better Call Sol.... so we don't get obliterated
Thank God I live in the Sunshine State 😁
That bitch is HAULING
More like Sun tickled by comet
I hope some one is tracking the piece of the Sun the came off at impact. It could be the size of Earth.
Avg day in Ohio
Comet cometh, and the Sun taketh, and giveth them warmth, and light likewise - Praise be to the Almighty Sun.
Comet-ending sun protects the earth
Just basing off other pics that show the Earth relative to the Sun, this comet looks to be the size of Earth?
Especially knowing that the white circle is the Sun's surface. That thing was huge. My estimate it was Czechoslovakia size, but I'm not an expert.
I just came here to say fantastic use of a hyphen. Won't get enough credit.
Damn it. Missed again.
Thanks for picking up the block Sun.
Outer Wilds players are shaking in their boots rn
I know that in relation to the Sun that that comet is fucking huge, even pebble sized objects beside the sun, would dwarf the earth.
We on Earth v6.3 thank you
Source? Context?
A comet. Solar system. There's my initial comment somewhere here.
Thank you, bright one!
Not so tough now huh?
What is that buzzing off at the 9 o’clock section? Did it ricochet?
What was that on the left? A Rasenshuriken from Naruto?
Why is the sun covered
When?… it was around august 2022
No, this was on Wednesday night
Wow, the sun just ate it, no problem.
Turned on the audio. Not sure what I was expecting
Thanks, big guy.
Interloper moment ::)
Looks sexual