NASA SDO - Massive Solar Eruption Close-up
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Uploaded by LittleSDOHMI on Jul 1, 2011
On June 7, 2011 the Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME). The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back down looking as if it covered an area almost half the solar surface.
SDO observed the flare's peak at 1:41 AM ET. SDO recorded these images in extreme ultraviolet light that show a very large eruption of cool gas. It is somewhat unique because at many places in the eruption there seems to be even cooler material -- at temperatures less than 80,000 K.
This video uses the full-resolution 4096 x 4096 pixel images at a one minute time cadence to provide the highest quality, finest detail version possible.
It is interesting to compare the event in different wavelengths because they each see different temperatures of plasma.
Credit: NASA SDO / Goddard Space Flight Center
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ZListon 1 week ago
ITs amazing, Solar Flares can be big enough to fit 3 earths inside of them. These flares also release trillions of x-rays and gamma rays into space.
DJStickyKeys 5 months ago
at 1:00 is that lightning?
belovelife 6 months ago
when do you stat to question if what you are seeing is really what you think you are looking at? hollywood took over naza fools, NEW WORLD ORDER 90% Depopulation soon... have a good day
adam3176 6 months ago
If this little thing is the real sun, i cant imagine how big these fire waves are.. D: would be awesome if we could watch it from blind eye...
Tolusca 7 months ago
Is that a disaster... ? =\\
Milen3212 8 months ago
wow!
stephenramsden 8 months ago
@randy25rhoads Yes, the number does correspond to wavelength, but the units are Angstroms (1 Angstrom = 0.1 nm). So, the wavelengths are 30.4nm, 21.1nm, and 17.1nm.
siteswap1 8 months ago
solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/suntime/slshow5.stm for source and extra info.
Amunnubz 8 months ago
@randy25rhoads NASA.gov's page states that the SOHO observatories view the Sun at wavelengths corresponding to 304, 195, and 284 nanometers respectively. Those numbers are probably changeable and the color of the 304 image on the site corresponds with the image in this video, so it's a safe assumption to say you're right.
Amunnubz 8 months ago