Beautiful Photos: Twisting Solar Eruption Is Poetry In The Sun
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A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 pm EDT.
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (Little SDO)"Two different active regions, 2 1/2 days apart, competing for the "Most Beautiful Eruption of early May 2013" award."
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (Little SDO)A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 pm EDT, just as an M-class solar flare from the same region was subsiding.
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (Little SDO)This image shows light in the 131-angstrom wavelength, a wavelength of light that can show material at the very hot temperatures of a solar flare and that is typically colorized in teal.
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (Little SDO)