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This movie takes us on a space weather journey from the center of the sun to solar eruptions in the suns atmosphere all the way to the effects of that activity near Earth. The view starts in the core of the sun where atoms fuse together to create light and energy. Next we travel toward the suns surface, watching loops of magnetic fields rise up to break through the suns atmosphere, the corona. In the corona is where we witness giant bursts of radiation and energy known as solar flares, as well as gigantic eruptions of solar material called coronal mass ejections or CMEs. The movie follows one of these CMEs toward Earth where it impacts and compresses Earths own protective magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere. As energy and particles from the sun funnel along magnetic field lines near Earth, they ultimately produce aurora at Earths poles.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 08:16:46 +0000

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