NASA | Magnificent Eruption in Full HD

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 away from the sun at over 900 miles per second. This movie shows the ejection from a variety of viewpoints as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), and the joint ESA/NASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).

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[imamidge]

It's so hard to wrap your head around just how massive that explosion was, and the sheer amount of energy that was released in that tiny amount of time. That was just awesome!

[moviesworldindia]

It's just extraordinary. How can someone dislike it.

[marlonmendez]

This scares me and excites me at the same time.

[BootlessDave]

Thanks Sun for sacrificing your valuable abundant resources to keep me warm <3.

[agp]

Who the hell would hit the would hit the dislike button on something this cool?  Just think a hundred years ago people would have killed to see this footage.

[ghos]

I'm always awed by the amount of acceleration these things get from a starting point of the Sun's gravity.

[brikfiend]

Apart from the sheer scale of that eruption this shows just how frail and vulnerable we are here on our tiny natural spaceship travelling through the Solar System.

[hipchickfitness]

The magnificence of the sun and the whole solar system is really amazing and it will continue to amaze us.

[pmajudge]

STILL WATCHING THIS HEART WARMER KEEPING US EARTHLIHGS ALIVE FROM U.K. (2021).

[The_A_Cast]

One of those eruptions would make the strongest imaginable hurricane you could ever imagine on Earth look like nothing more than a gentle spring breeze.
It really puts our tiny planet and lives into perspective!

[mai]

There is a lot more inspiration in nature than in people...this is beautiful

[pete]

Very beautiful and very scary at the same time. It gives us life and it can take it away!

[MrTaylorTexas]

Wow, I never new that there was a gigantic billboard with the word "music" on the surface of the sun .

[plottwist]

A moment of silence and respect for Larry the cameraman who got skin cancer to bring us these amazing shots

[ironsirenheadtv]

Man Credit to camera man and mercury for surviving this coronal mass ejection

[atillakececi]

Music: ♫ Earth to Mars ♫ - (Demos Off Kiehl) by Berry Perkins - 2009
They should mention it in Goddard Explanation, such a good but somehow wasted music

[johnwilliams]

Beautiful: Sooo facinating. Mesmerizing!

[wigglekins]

"And I suppose... if it's my last chance to say it... Rose Tyler..." *sun explodes*

[RejectedInch]

sneezing sun. Well...bless you? Superb, absolutely superb.

[geraldfrost]

900 miles per second... that's like 0.5% the speed of light!
Balrog's whip indeed.