Tuesday, February 24, 2015

SOLAR ERUPTIONS - A CORONAL MASS EJECTION


The swirling inner layers of our sun cause charged particles to generate magnetic fields. As charges accumulate on the surface, magnetic field lines readjust themselves and release huge quantities of matter and electromagnetic radiation into space. This particular Mass Ejection is traveling at over 900 miles per second and has an energy level equivalent to 160,000,000,000 megatons of TNT.
Credit:
NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory/Goddard Spaceflight Center

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/sets/
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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