Video: Satellite Captures Another Giant Eruption From Sun

Published on April 17, 2012 by admin   ·   No Comments

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NASA’s solar orbiter captured an enormous eruption from the sun today.

The “beautiful prominence eruption” occurred at 1:45 p.m. ET and was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Although visually spectacular, the resulting solar flare registered only in the middle of the intensity scale (M1.7 class).

No danger to Earth, however. The burst of super-hot plasma, called a coronal mass ejection, went in another direction. But the sun is in an active stage of its 11-year cycle, which is expected to peak next year.