A prominence eruption observed by AIA

AIA caught this beautiful prominence eruption only a few days after its doors were opened. The movie wobbles at the end because AIA's image stabilization system wasn't fully activated yet. Without the full stabilization capability, AIA would not be able to see the Sun at such high resolution. The actual wobble was extremely small - imagine a period in a newspaper seen from 100 meters away. Now move that period over a couple of words.

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[Jefrystube]

Time to disable comments.

It's. The. Sun, people.

[elyoda12]

DRAGON BALL!!

[Beandude202]

@RtZ10

In a few billion years I'm sure our offspring will figure something out.

[Kohrote]

@RtZ10 No, there is not enough hydrogen in all the planets put together, it will bloat into a red giant and burn helium though

[RtZ10]

How do we "fill" the sun with more fuel?? Is it possible to do that to save our future?

[ldynasty]

now thats a real "red ring of death"

[clintweeks2000]

I am curious if this is a real time picture or is it shot over time ? That is HUGE ! Can you imagine the mass of that matter shooting up that fast ?? Amazing.

[pspboy7]

The sun is fascinating, we need not fear it, for it allows life to exist on Earth. Funny how Earth happens to be just the right distance from the Sun for life to exist. Ain't it grand?

[robloxpwnmaster3]

OH MOTHER OF SHIT IT HEADED TO EARTH!

[aSheeple]

fantastic video, the team that captured it must have been ecstatic.

[PacoLeoneVideo]

nobody say "fake"? it is strange! generally every video on youtube have at least 1 retarded that say "fake".

[SKITTL3Z37]

@pbmdh um duh we all learned that in 8th grade