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VIDEO: Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational Death Sun!

Published by Christian Ready on 17 September, 2012 | Leave a response

When I saw this image I thought “wow, what an awesome painting!” But that’s not a painting at all – instead, it’s an actual image of the Sun taken in Ultraviolet light by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on August 31 2012, and it was a monster! Here’s the breakdown: A filament of relatively cool gas [...]

Posted in Sun | Tagged CME, flare, SDO, SOHO, STEREO, Sun, Video
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