SDO: Pick of the Week (2012 May 04)
Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 11:06 pm
Pop-Pop-Popping Off
An active region spurted off at least half a dozen solar flares and numerous other small bursts of plasma over about 36 hours (Apr. 29 - May 1, 2012). The bright active region, viewed in extreme ultraviolet light by Solar Dynamics Observatory, must have had a tangled magnetic field for it to erupt so frequently. None of the flares were major, but they made for a nifty movie.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO/AIA << Previous SDO
An active region spurted off at least half a dozen solar flares and numerous other small bursts of plasma over about 36 hours (Apr. 29 - May 1, 2012). The bright active region, viewed in extreme ultraviolet light by Solar Dynamics Observatory, must have had a tangled magnetic field for it to erupt so frequently. None of the flares were major, but they made for a nifty movie.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO/AIA << Previous SDO
