Giant Sun Eruption Captured in NASA Video! - (November 16, 2012)
The sun unleashed a monster eruption of super-hot plasma Friday (Nov. 16) in back-to-back solar storms captured on camera by a NASA spacecraft. The giant sun eruption, called a solar prominence, occurred at 1 am EST (0600 GMT), with another event flaring up four hours later. The prominence was so large, it expanded beyond the camera view of NASA #39;s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which captured high-definition video of the solar eruption. In the video, a colossal loop of glowing red plasma erupts from the lower left of the sun, arcing up and out of frame as it blasts away from the star. \"The red-glowing looped material is plasma, a hot gas made of electrically charged hydrogen and helium,\" officials with NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight Center, which oversees the SDO mission, explained in a description. \"The prominence plasma flows along a tangled and twisted structure of magnetic fields generated by the sun #39;s internal dynamo. An erupting prominence occurs when such a structure becomes unstable and bursts outward, releasing the plasma.\" Friday #39;s solar eruption does not appear to be aimed at Earth, so will likely have little effect on our planet. But that was not the case earlier this week when a powerful solar flare erupted on Monday (Nov. 12). That flare registered as an M6-class eruption, a moderate but still intense solar. On Tuesday and Wednesday (Nov. 13 and 14), space weather conditions sparked a geomagnetic storm that supercharged the Earth #39;s auroras, creating ...From:BreakingNewsLocationViews:106 5ratingsTime:00:58More inNews Politics<\/p>\n
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