Pete Tillman
Magnificent CME Erupts on our Sun, August 31, 2012
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 at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3.
Picuted here is a lighten blended version of the 304 and 171 angstrom wavelengths. Cropped by NASA
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO
Edited from a copy at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnificent_CME_Erupts_on...
PD photo. I touched up levels a bit.
For science nerds: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory
Magnificent CME Erupts on our Sun, August 31, 2012
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 at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3.
Picuted here is a lighten blended version of the 304 and 171 angstrom wavelengths. Cropped by NASA
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO
Edited from a copy at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnificent_CME_Erupts_on...
PD photo. I touched up levels a bit.
For science nerds: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory