January 19, 2012 Solar Flare and CME
January 20, 2012
This video taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows a close-up of sunspot 1401 region as the flare erupts. The CME cloud lifting off is visible just past midway in the video. Across the top is a graph of corresponding X-ray measurements taken by the GOES 15 satellite. credit: NASA
Topics:
Environment, Technology Internet, Space plasmas, Plasma physics, Climate change, Coronal mass ejection, Solar cycle, Solar flare, Sunspot, Sun
