File:Having a Solar Blast - Flickr - NASA Goddard Photo and Video.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionHaving a Solar Blast - Flickr - NASA Goddard Photo and Video.jpg |
To see a video of this event go here The Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) on June 7. The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back down looking as if it covered an area of almost half the solar surface. SDO observed the flare's peak at 1:41 AM ET. SDO recorded these images in extreme ultraviolet light that show a very large eruption of cool gas. It is somewhat unique because at many places in the eruption there seems to be even cooler material -- at temperatures less than 80,000 K. When viewed in SOHO’s coronagraphs, the event shows bright plasma and high-energy particles roaring from the Sun. This Earth-directed CME is moving at 1400 km/s according to NASA models. Due to its angle, however, effects on Earth should be fairly small. Nevertheless, it may generate space weather effects such as aurora here on Earth in a few days. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO
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Date | Taken on 7 June 2011, 10:15 |
Source | Having a Solar Blast |
Author | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA |
Flickr tags InfoField | nasa , sdo , sun , solar blast , cme , solar flare , june 7 , satellite |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by NASA Goddard Photo and Video at https://flickr.com/photos/24662369@N07/5808204795. It was reviewed on 19 July 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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