Gorgeous filament eruption
Wednesday, 27 January 2016 01:47 UTC
A very pretty filament eruption took place yesterday on the Sun's south-western quadrant. It caused an X-ray enhancement that reached the C1 threshold.
A minor coronal mass ejection was launched but SOHO coronagraph imagery confirms that the cloud of solar plasma will head well south-west of our planet, and no impact is to be expected. It still was a very pretty eruption, this video from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (above) is well worth the watch!
Animation: SOHO LASCO C2 imagery confirms that this coronal mass ejection is unlikely to arrive at Earth.
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