A Small Flare and Eruption from a Giant Filament
A giant filament on the sun produced a small eruption and flare. The post A Small Flare and Eruption from a Giant Filament appeared first on The Sun Today with C. Alex Young, Ph.D..
View ArticleHappy Birthday SOHO!! 15 Years!!
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory or SOHO is by many accounts the granddaddy of modern solar astronomy. SOHO is not the first space based solar observatory but it has truly ushered in a golden age...
View ArticleEpic Solar Filament Eruption from Dec. 6, 2010 Seen by STEREO
A very long solar filament that had been snaking around the Sun erupted (Dec. 6, 2010) with a flourish. STEREO (Behind) caught the action in dramatic detail in extreme ultraviolet light of Helium. It...
View ArticleSolar Desktop Wallpapers
We have reached the milestone of 1000 Fans on our FaceBook page! As promised, we have been preparing a small treat for all of you as a sign of appreciation for making the TheSunToday page such a great...
View ArticleA Prominence Breaks Free (SOHO Pick of the Week – May 20, 2011)
The STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft observed as a photogenic, solar prominence erupted and broke out into space over about 18-hour period (May 13, 2011). Prominences, notoriously unstable structures, are...
View ArticleA Spectacular Event – A Filament/Prominence Eruption to Blow Your Socks Off!
A solar flare, coronal wave, filament eruption, coronal rain & a coronal mass ejection (CME)! The post A Spectacular Event – A Filament/Prominence Eruption to Blow Your Socks Off! appeared first on...
View Article3 Days of AR11429 – Lots of Activity
Sunspot group AR11429! Here is a look at AR11429 from Friday to today showing the 2 M-class and 1 X-class flare blasting away from the Sun. In addition to those events and their associated CMEs there...
View ArticleGiant Filament Staring at Earth
High above the solar surface in the hot million+ C solar corona sits a giant filament of cooler (~50,000 C), denser material, both supported and restrained by solar magnetic fields. If this filament...
View ArticleX17 Solar Flare and Solar Storm of October 28, 2003
On this day in 2003 (October 28), the Sun unleashed one of the largest and most geoeffective solar storms of the modern age (and consequently, one of the most studied). The eruption was part of what...
View ArticleHow Big is the Sun?
The Sun is really really big! It is difficult to get a true feel for how big it is because nothing in our daily life comes even close. But we can use objects that we are familiar with to provide […]...
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