NASA SDO - Filament Eruption and Solar Flare, August 1, 2010

On August 1, 2010, the sun produced a complex event, or really a set of events. At approximately 8:55 UT a large filament on the northwest of the sun erupted and at nearly the same time in sunspot active region 11902, a C3 flare occurred. In addition to the flare, a coronal wave can be seen coming from the sunspot group. Nearly 10 hours later another filament, southeast of the first filament, also erupted.

Two CMEs were produced from this set of events and should impact the earth on Aug 4th and 5th. These may produce some aurora and solar storms but the effect is predicted to be minimal. In as far as we can tell at this time these CMEs are not fast or otherwise extraordinary.

The flare and the first filament eruption seem to occur together in what scientists often refer to as a "sympathetic" event - a set of events where one event appears to have caused the other event. So the big question is, "Which came first, the flare or the filament eruption?" This difficult yet important question is precisely one of the reasons the Solar Dynamics Observatory was built to answer.

Credit: NASA SDO Solar Dynamics Observatory. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.

Composite of 3 different wavelength images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This mostly shows the hot corona but some darker chromospheric material (filament) can be seen.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NASA
• SDO
• Solar
• Dynamics
• Observatory
• Sun
• Filament
• eruption
• space
• weather
• spaceweather

[pogpog28]

First destructive solar flare was recorded in 1859. Telegraph poles were on fire and telegraph network were down. After careful study, next event was already foreseen with 90% life wipe out but Scientists coded the actual date in Religious way to prevent people from panicking (late 19th century). Michael the Archangel was the key where he defeated Satan and save the Earth from burning in Hell. 2012 - 1859 = 153.

Search 153 that relates "Michael the Archangel" in Google. You'll be surprised.

[JustinBringit]

Awesome......=).

[EarendilTheBlessed]

@DrDoe1

juste look at the clock at the left of the video... this video is in fact 29 hours of filming...

[amiga6000]

Looks like hell...

[Joshuar51]

2012

[DrDoe1]

Why are these video so short? I thought the SDO was recording 24/7.... a 30 second to 1 minute clip would be amazing! Longer would be great too;)

[ismokeot420420]

@tcpnet kiddin right 1st time? uh you mean chemical reation

[tcpnet]

For the first time, it is having a physical reaction!

[fallbread]

cool