NASA SDO - Massive Solar Eruption Close-up

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On June 7, 2011 the Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME). The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back down looking as if it covered an area 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.

This video uses the full-resolution 4096 x 4096 pixel images at a one minute time cadence to provide the highest quality, finest detail version possible.

It is interesting to compare the event in different wavelengths because they each see different temperatures of plasma.

Credit: NASA SDO / Goddard Space Flight Center
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прекрасное разрешение, побольше видеоклипов с таким разрешением. Спасибо.

shadrin
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ITs amazing, Solar Flares can be big enough to fit 3 earths inside of them. These flares also release trillions of x-rays and gamma rays into space.

DJStickyKeys
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@randy25rhoads NASA.gov's page states that the SOHO observatories view the Sun at wavelengths corresponding to 304, 195, and 284 nanometers respectively. Those numbers are probably changeable and the color of the 304 image on the site corresponds with the image in this video, so it's a safe assumption to say you're right.

Amunnubz
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My first graders will love this. Maybe they will stop drawing yellow suns with smiley faces. (Not that that is a bad thing.)

robinstewart
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Does 304, 211, and 171 refer to the wavelength of the light captured in the image? As in 304nm, 211nm, and 171nm?

randyrhoads