On May 27, 2014, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, - TopicsExpress



          

On May 27, 2014, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, facebook/NASA.Little.SDO - captured a burst of superheated gas, called plasma, gushing from the sun. More: go.nasa.gov/1kXrPqH Such eruptions happen frequently and result from the dynamic magnetic field lines that extend into the suns atmosphere. Each event can release a huge amount of energy and send streams of million-degree plasma soaring outward. The ejected material either escapes the sun’s gravitational pull and ripples through space or falls back toward the surface. On this occasion, a river of plasma was seen rising and descending above the sun’s limb over a period of two hours.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 21:17:02 +0000

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