EUREKA! Lightbulb-Shaped Solar Eruption
August 30, 2012
Giving new meaning to the phrase “a bright idea”, SOHO’s LASCO C2 instrument captures a CME shaped like an incandescent light bulb. The video covers just a few hours on August 20, 2012. NOTE: Video loops 4 times. Credit: SOHO (ESA & NASA)
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Technology Internet, Environment, light sources, Thomas Edison, Space plasmas, Plasma physics, Space telescopes, SOHO, Ejection, Coronal mass ejection, Incandescent light bulb, Optical materials, Solar flare, Corona, Sun, Astrophysics, Astronomy, Physics, Optics, Technology
