NASA | Magnificent Eruption in Full HD

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 away from the sun at over 900 miles per second. 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).

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[MiricxSFT]

The planets aren't stars you idiot, they're planets.

[30s30]

dude this is legit.

[liza4335]

Nice

[scott gillespie]

wow!!!!!!

[Glossika]

Then theoretically there really could be things moving faster than the speed of light. Especially relative to the speeds of other objects.

But then again, considering the earth and sun are moving at a certain speed in a certain direction, maybe our whole local cluster of galaxies is moving in the opposite direction, and we're really moving in that direction too, just slower than the cluster itself. You can never really know true speed.

[slash249]

para la intro de dragon ball

[TheSuperbuddhas]

amazing look at that burst of solar flames

[Priya Sreekumar]

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[Anils Balaji]

mahesh i LIKE

[ooTpik2]

Silence is bro/<en once it is spo\<en ~

[ooTpik2]

I concur , who does this soundtrack... Brian Eno ?

[jojojorisjhjosef]

How does that makes sence? because if you calculate the, lets say, 2 points in space, how are you able to get the speed of the earth in that aswel?