I woke up this morning first to a NOAA solar proton storm warning then an email from my office mate and helioviewer.org creator, Dr. Jack Ireland. The email was titled, ”Never seen anything like this before -- spectacular”. And he wasn’t kidding!
The event had everything, a solar flare, a coronal wave, a filament eruption, a coronal mass ejection, coronal rain and a coronal mass ejection, just to name a few. [source THE SUN TODAY]
To put this into perspective, the planet EARTH (our homeworld) is about the size on one of the single letter "O"s in the helioviewer.org caption in the bottom-right corner of this movie.
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