Arching Eruption

  • Released Tuesday, June 30th, 2015
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:49PM
  • ID: 11908

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught this image of an eruption on the side of the sun over June 18, 2015. The eruption ultimately escaped the sun, growing into a substantial coronal mass ejection, or CME — a giant cloud of solar material traveling through space. This imagery is shown in the 304 angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light, a wavelength that highlights material in the low parts of the sun’s atmosphere and that is typically colorized in red. The video clip covers about four hours of the event.


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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center


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  • Arching Eruption (ID: 2015054)
    Friday, June 26, 2015 at 4:00AM
    Produced by - Will Duquette