Photo # 2 (June 2010)

LARGE ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE IMAGED BY STEREO

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it
and dependent on it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes
as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. 

- Galileo

Credit: STEREO Project, NASA

What's happened to our Sun? In May, it produced one of the largest eruptive prominences ever seen. Pictured above, 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 above, 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.

One cannot but wonder whether unusual eruptions on the sun might have unknown effects that are reflected on Earth. The bioenergy healing community is establishing and confirming the effects of bioenergy interactions between living organisms on our planet. There is no reason to expect that bioenergy interactions would not occur similarly between heavenly bodies.

- Dan Benor, MD