Sonneneruption in HD

Man kann ja über die Amis toll lästern, aber das mit der NASA kriegen sie einfach verdammt gut hin. Erst lassen sie uns die tollsten Fotos unseres Sonnensystems komplett for free auf ihrer zwar hässlichen aber sehr gut strukturierten Webite bestaunen und jetzt kloppen diese verrückten Wissenschaftler auch noch HD-Videos unserer Sonne mit New-Age-Meditationsbegleitung raus

This movie of the March 6, 2012 X5.4 flare was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in the 171 and 131 Angstrom wavelength. One of the most dramatic features is the way the entire surface of the sun seems to ripple with the force of the eruption. This movement comes from something called EIT waves -- because they were first discovered with the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) on the Solar Heliospheric Observatory. Since SDO captures images every 12 seconds, it has been able to map the full evolution of these waves and confirm that they can travel across the full breadth of the sun. The waves move at over a million miles per hour, zipping from one side of the sun to the other in about an hour. The movie shows two distinct waves. The first seems to spread in all directions; the second is narrower, moving toward the southeast. Such waves are associated with, and perhaps trigger, fast coronal mass ejections, so it is likely that each one is connected to one of the two CMEs that erupted on March 6.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xKRBkBBEP0

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