Photo of the Day
September 21, 2012 2 Comments
Alan Taylor brings “Around the Solar System.” This is just amazing:
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.(NASA/GSFC/SDO)
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Reblogged this on andandocontigo and commented:
impresionante!
The source at The Atlantic has a 1280 width picture. Amazing.
The end swirl is probably large enough to swallow our planet easily.