Matter Tears Through Sun's Atmosphere As Magnetic Filament Ruptures | Video
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 12:10
in Astronomy & Space
On Jan. 26th, 2016, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured imagery (at several different wavelengths) of superheated plasma exploding away from the Sun in a Coronal Mass Ejection event. [The blast is not Earth-directed.]