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Magnificent Solar Eruption in Full HD

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On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled away from the sun at over 900 miles per second.

This movie shows the ejection from a variety of viewpoints as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), and the joint ESA/NASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).

Follow this up with this video primer of how SDO, STEREO, and SOHO work togetherΒ to send us these phenomenal views of the sun’s entire surfaceΒ and atmosphere.

viaΒ io9.com.

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