Wednesday, June 8, 2011

check out this amazing high-energy solar eruption or coronal mass ejection


check out this amazing high-energy solar eruption or coronal mass ejection

I woke up this morning first to a NOAA solar proton storm warning then an email from my office mate and helioviewer.org creator, Dr. Jack Ireland. The email was titled, ”Never seen anything like this before -- spectacular”. And he wasn’t kidding!

The event had everything, a solar flare, a coronal wave, a filament eruption, a coronal mass ejection, coronal rain and a coronal mass ejection, just to name a few.
 [source THE SUN TODAY]



To my non-scientific eye, it looks like one quarter of the sun just EXPLODED.

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