Massive Filament Eruption on Sun On August 31, 2012 the Sun unleashed a powerful coronal mass ejection, in which it released high-energy material from the corona into space at 900 miles per second. It was not aimed at Earth, luckily, but still gave aurora-watchers quite a light show. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the event, as seen above. Those are four different light filters that can detect different chemical composition, from long (the bluer filters) to short (the orange and yellow). But disregarding all that technical stuff … holy cow this is an amazing picture. Support a cool space program and we can put cool spacecraft in orbit that will take cool pictures like this. (via NASA, here’s a bigger version)
Pop-upView Separately

Massive Filament Eruption on Sun

On August 31, 2012 the Sun unleashed a powerful coronal mass ejection, in which it released high-energy material from the corona into space at 900 miles per second. It was not aimed at Earth, luckily, but still gave aurora-watchers quite a light show.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the event, as seen above. Those are four different light filters that can detect different chemical composition, from long (the bluer filters) to short (the orange and yellow).

But disregarding all that technical stuff … holy cow this is an amazing picture. Support a cool space program and we can put cool spacecraft in orbit that will take cool pictures like this.

(via NASA, here’s a bigger version)

Source: nasa.gov

370 Notes/ Hide

  1. ippoddity reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  2. zamajalo reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  3. bringmemorphine reblogged this from olivenite
  4. porcelai reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  5. purpleneenee reblogged this from ollieramblings
  6. ollieramblings reblogged this from cesarin
  7. cesarin reblogged this from jaxxbfox and added:
    the video is INSANE!!! what a huge blow of matter! the interesting part is.. despite it being fired elsewhere than...
  8. shychouette reblogged this from alinomster
  9. if7even reblogged this from turian-kisses
  10. puke-ahontas reblogged this from techno4tomcats
  11. countkalvitus reblogged this from techno4tomcats and added:
    That’s not an artistic rendering of a coronal ejection. That is an actual photograph. …Science is fucking awesome.
  12. jaxxbfox reblogged this from techno4tomcats and added:
    HOLY FU*K….
  13. techno4tomcats reblogged this from turian-kisses
  14. shatterpointcollective reblogged this from cericneesh
  15. fabianlemagne reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  16. alinomster reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  17. waiting-is-forbidden reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  18. cericneesh reblogged this from turian-kisses and added:
    Psh. This isn’t from the sun. It’s entirely sci-fi. Because seriously. Real life doesn’t look that awesome, EVER. (Plot...
  19. turian-kisses reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  20. chibiactionhero reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  21. powderedhand reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  22. livemadly reblogged this from taylarderosa
  23. brook3worm reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  24. wild-sweet-blueberry reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  25. survivingtherenaissance reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  26. herearetwothings reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  27. scitchet reblogged this from jtotheizzoe and added:
    I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I repeat: Stars are awesome.
  28. obscurecity reblogged this from jtotheizzoe and added:
    Massive Filament Eruption on Sun On August 31, 2012 the Sun unleashed a powerful coronal mass ejection, in which it...
  29. head-fulla-lucy reblogged this from abcstarstuff

Recent comments

Blog comments powered by Disqus