The Sun Oozes Awesomeness

[Lije]

A few weeks back the Solar Dynamics Observatory was launched and it has been taking some beautiful pictures of the Sun. Here is a solar eruption that it caught in action:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmm3J0WAres

The arc is supposed to be around 100,000 km wide.

[Ajita Kamal]

This is awesome. I'd actually already seen it on the day it was released. Shobhit sent out a notice on facebook. Nice idea to post it here. I think we will be getting more updates from the SDO in the days to come, and we can add those images and clips here.

[Lije]

SDO captures a Coronal Mass Ejection.

That is one of the scariest things I've ever seen. And supposedly it is not a big eruption. Wonder what a big one would look like. :shudder:

[siddharth]

Brilliant! And scary.

[Lije]

SDO caught a massive solar Prominence:


(Click image for full size)

BadAstronomer has the background on the prominence.