Friday, August 6, 2010

NASA photographs fast solar explosion from the sun

The fastest solar eruption in years was photographed from the sun at more than 2.2 million mph by two NASA spacecraft:
On August 1st, the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. There was a C3-class solar flare, a solar tsunami, multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale shaking of the solar corona, radio bursts, a coronal mass ejection and more. This extreme ultraviolet snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the sun's northern hemisphere in mid-eruption:


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