Incredible Solar Flare, Prominence Eruption and CME Event (171 angstroms)

  • Released Friday, July 1, 2011
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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 3838 (304 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

This page was originally published on Friday, July 1, 2011.
This page was last updated on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM EST.

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