Saturday 31 May 2014

A first for NASA's IRIS: a gigantic eruption of solar material

SOLAR SCIENCE
A first for NASA's IRIS: a gigantic eruption of solar material
Palo Alto, Calif. (UPI) May 30, 2013 - Earlier this month, a coronal mass ejection (CME) - which sounds both gross and dangerous, until you learn it's just a really big solar flare - leaped from the side of the sun. Luckily, IRIS, NASA's newest solar observatory, was in prime position to capture a detailed profile view of extraordinary ejection. Capturing the impressive CME was a first for Interface Region Imaging Spectrog ... more


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