Tuesday, April 16, 2013

An Awesome and Terrifying Event


Leaping off the sun to the right is a giant plume of solar material – ionized gas called plasma – from sunspot 1283. This sunspot ejected four solar flares and three coronal mass ejections from September 6 to September 8, 2011. The picture here, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows light with a wavelength of 335 Angstroms. Credit:NASA/SDO/AIA




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