ARLA/CLUSTER: Uma das maiores erupções solares registadas até hoje

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Monster prominence erupts from Sun

Early Tuesday morning (June 7, 2011) an amazingly massive and
spectacular event took place on the Sun; a huge prominence eruption,
marked by a solar flare and release of energetic particles. Daniel
Pendick from the Geeked on Goddard blog described it as a “fountain of
plasma that blasts out of the solar surface, spreads outward, and
collapses to splat back down.”

“I’ve never seen material released like this before, such a huge
amount that falls back down in such a spectacular way,” says Dr. C.
Alex Young in the video. “It looks like someone just kicked a giant
clod of dirt into the air and it fell back down.” Young added that
this event will probably not cause any problems as far as space
weather affecting Earth.

This video is courtesy NASA Goddard’s Helioviewer.org with narration
by folks from The Sun Today.(http://thesuntoday.org/)

Read the full item at:
Monster Prominence Erupts from Sun

Sun explosion compared to the destruction of Planet Alderaan

This is the 7 June 2011 explosion on the Sun as compared to the
destruction of Alderaan from the Star Wars (A New Hope) film.

When comparing the "amount of awesome", the Sun's explosion is
approximately 2.2 Kilo-Alderaans of awesome.
http://youtu.be/7zGwbiCKLHs

For more sun info, see Lucie Green:
http://luciegreen.com

For more awesome info, see Matt Parker:
http://standupmaths.com



 Fonte: Reg, G8VHI