April 21, 2010

Large Eruptive Prominence Imaged by Satelite



What's happened to our Sun?

Last week, it produced one of the most power eruptive prominences ever seen. Pictured below, the prominence erupted in only a few hours and was captured in movie form by NASA's twin Sun-orbiting STEREO satellites. A quiescent solar prominence is a cloud of hot solar gas held above the Sun's surface by the Sun's magnetic field. Unpredictably, however, prominences may erupt, expelling hot gas into the Solar System via a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). As pictured below, many Earths would easily fit under the expanding ribbon of hot gas. Although somehow related to the Sun's changing magnetic field, the energy mechanism that creates and sustains a Solar prominence is still a topic of research.

Logorama

Logorama, the winner of this year's Academy Award for Best Animated Short is a 16 minute film, set in Los Angeles,. Written and directed by François Alaux, Herve de Crecy and Ludovic Houplain of H5 (France).

Using about 2,500 logos as the setting, the short takes you into a world of corporate and brand logos where many stories intertwine and develop. Here it is in two parts…



The 'District 9' Guy Is Back, and Harrassing Charlize Theron

Gorillaz - Complex Magazine


The Gorillaz take over the April/May 2010 issue of Complex Magazine. Their new album Plastic Beach is out now.