Incredible Solar Flare, Prominence Eruption and CME Event (304 angstroms)

  • Released Friday, July 1st, 2011
  • Updated Friday, August 25th, 2023 at 12:01AM
  • ID: 3838
On June 7, 2011, an M-2 flare occurred on the Sun which released a very large coronal mass ejection (CME). Much of the ejected material is much cooler (less than about 80,000K) and therefore appears dark against the brighter solar disk.

Material which does not reach solar escape velocity can be seen falling back and striking the solar surface, sometimes triggering smaller events.

This image sequence is captured at one minute intervals and designed to play synchronously with animations 3839 (171 Ångstroms), 3840 (211 Ångstroms) and 3841 (1700 Ångstroms).

These movies present the six hour interval around the event, a one minute per animation frame.

These are 4Kx4K frames with coded colors.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Datasets used in this visualization

SDO AIA 304 (A.K.A. 304 Filter) (Collected with the AIA sensor)
JOINT SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER 2011/06/07T06:00:00 - 2011/06/07T12:00:00

Dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/

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