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Wonder of Science

One of the most spectacular coronal mass ejections from the Sun ever captured by NASA's SDO spacecraft.

Credit: NASA​/​SDO
Widescreen 4K version on Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=1NkQmnuCsGM

The CME shown was captured by NASA's SDO spacecraft on Aug 31, 2012. The CME was not aimed directly at Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetosphere, causing spectacular auroras on the night of Sep 3, like this one captured over Whitehorse, Yukon by David Cartier, Sr.
Source: nasa.gov/mission_pages/suneart

@wonderofscience Absolutely wonderful and at the same time humbling! And they still say there is no Creator?

@sonlightlife @wonderofscience

Creator is surplus to requirements.

Physics is all we need.

@sonlightlife @wonderofscience

great. I get to be 'them'.

there is no creator!

this proves the opposite, if you can manage to think it through.

@wonderofscience
Hard to imagine that's an actual photons-hitting-the-CCD video and not CGI! So gorgeous. We, these tiny specs of life, are staring out with our tiny little eyes and satellites and telescopes at an awe-inspiring universe of chaos and turmoil and beauty.
@joaocosta

@wonderofscience the sun about to put this video on their OnlyFans

@wonderofscience I always wonder with these impressive videos how far this is from a real-time representation. So at what speed the ejection actually takes place.

@danimo @wonderofscience according to the comments in the YouTube video, the cme moves 900 miles per second. Sorry to not have the time to convert this antiquated measurement into in SI units

@Layer8Problem @wonderofscience
I was microwaving tomato soup when this came up. So prescient.

@wonderofscience

Does anyone know the speed that ejection was going. (I could look it up, but rabbit holes are my nemesis...)

@Sfwmson @wonderofscience 900 kilometres per second. It reached earth within 4 days.

@kboyd @wonderofscience

Thank you so much...I did end up in a rabbit hole, anyway, but it was about Putin.

@wonderofscience

whooooooaaa direct hit from that woulda been SUPERbad

:blobfox0_0:

@wonderofscience
#AltText4You
This is a very short video. See OP.

"One of the most spectacular coronal mass ejections from the Sun ever captured by NASA's SDO spacecraft"

@wonderofscience
Amazing and humbling.
Such immense raw power.
In a galactic context, we are pretty low down on the food chain.
Insects and gods.

@wonderofscience

That’s frightening and amazingly beautiful all in one package. It boggles the mind to think about all the wonders out there in the universe.