Seeing the total eclipse today was one of the most amazing things I've witnessed in my life for quite a few reasons, and one of the best moments was smack in the middle of the totality, when my entire friend group was going "do you see that red dot along the edge? What is that? Is that a solar flare? Those can't be visible, right?" [brief frantic googling] "HOLY CRAP THAT'S A SOLAR FLARE!!!"
As it turns out, coronal ejections are in fact visible during a total eclipse when the corona is showing; we couldn't make out any individual strands like a telescope would be able to, but it was still visible to the naked eye!
you guys science is so fucking cool and absolutely fucked up. we know so little about space, but it’s still more than we know about the deep oceans. glowing cats are a thing people made (whilst trying to protect against feline AIDS, no less). Space is fucktupling by the second. Have you ever seen Pluto’s orbit around the sun. We’ve launched shit into space that we’re never getting back. I love science so fucking much. I’m such a nerd. S p a c e.