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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.
This movie shows the ejection from a variety of viewpoints as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), and the joint ESA/NASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
Credit: NASA/GSFC
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mikl.b 9 months ago | reply
Cette galerie est magnifique.
for Neil.
♫ Look-aa ♪ 9 months ago | reply
Who chose the soundtrack?
That's pretty lame and ruins a magnificent video
grammardog 9 months ago | reply
Glorious!
Pyrrhos 9 months ago | reply
WoW !
muufi 9 months ago | reply
simplemente magnífico. Un día podremos oírlo...
DiamantThomy 9 months ago | reply
Nice
Wsarnak 9 months ago | reply
Great :P
ArlindoCarvalho 9 months ago | reply
Sensational. Congratulations and thank you for sharing this.
mylohc 9 months ago | reply
fantastic
Andrés Ameglio 9 months ago | reply
good music
carlisledeirdra 9 months ago | reply
that's so awesome !
marinela 2008 9 months ago | reply
Splendid view and incredible capture !
marinela 2008 9 months ago | reply
Congrats !
tropical_cpl 9 months ago | reply
If this one had been directed at Earth, would we have been a giant "hushpuppy"?
tigerpower.t21 8 months ago | reply
You are looking at beauty in it's 'truest' form, please respect what you call 'The Sun'. Xx
chaudhary.alam 8 months ago | reply
who made the sun ?
Lightning Lee 7 months ago | reply
wow! what else can u say.
SLR Enthusiast 6 months ago | reply
Amazing!!
Ptoke 5 months ago | reply
truly amazing!
gwhat79 5 months ago | reply
I'm pissed why won't you let us save this beautiful photo?