Five Days of Flares and CMEs

  • Released Tuesday, October 29, 2013
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This movie shows 23 of the 26 M- and X-class flares on the sun between 18:00 UT Oct. 23 and 15:00 UT Oct. 28, 2013, as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. It also shows the coronal mass ejections — great clouds of solar material bursting off the sun into space — during that time as captured by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.

Credit: NASA/ESA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Music: "Stella Nova" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of the artist and Ultimae Records.

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SDO AIA 131 angstrom video and frames from 1800 UT on October 23 to 0600UT on October 28.

Video and frames of SOHO LASCO C2 coronagraph for all of October 23-28. The video has missing frames filled in.

Video and frames of SOHO LASCO C3 coronagraph for all of October 23-28. The video has missing frames filled in.

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This page was originally published on Tuesday, October 29, 2013.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM EDT.

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  • Five Days of Flares and CMEs (ID: 2013088)
    Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 4:00AM
    Produced by - Robert Crippen (NASA)

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