Click here to view an image showing the size of this CME compared to the size of Earth: bit.ly/RkYr7z
On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3.
Pictured here is a lighten blended version of the 304 and 171 angstrom wavelengths. Cropped
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO
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Earthling2005 8 months ago | reply
Out of curiosity, Would it be very noisy in the sun?
zeus2017 8 months ago | reply
É a nossa estrela em atividade.
cyriac.s.pampackal 8 months ago | reply
Wow,magnificient
tbransco 3 months ago | reply
The sun might be middle-aged, but it never gets old. Stupefying image.