This is a picture of a solar filament erupting. When the sun throws filaments into space, it produces a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). The sun's magnetic field holds in the filaments and randomly releases them.When the sun does this, Earth normally experiences an increase in an increase of visible auroras.
Nice post buddy, I didn't realize filaments were released at random and not caused by something in the star. I also didn't realize the scale of CMEs until seeing this picture.
ReplyDeleteTo think that 3 earth's could fit into that CME... the scale of the universe is incredible.
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