Monday 2 June 2014

A First for NASA's IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material

SOLAR SCIENCE
A First for NASA's IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 02, 2014 - A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014, and NASA's newest solar observatory caught it in extraordinary detail. This was the first CME observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, which launched in June 2013 to peer into the lowest levels of the sun's atmosphere with better resolution than ever before. Watch the movie to see how a c ... more


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