September 23, 2012 Solar Prominence

  • Released Monday, February 11, 2013
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On September 23, 2012 the sun emitted a large blast of plasma in the form of a prominence (see Wikipedia). This was most visible in extreme ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 304 angstroms. This wavelength highlights plasma with temperatures of around 50,000 Kelvin. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the event at 4k resolution and a high imaging cadence of one image every 12 seconds.

HD movie of the prominence eruption

Colorized 4Kx4K SDO imagery of the prominence eruption.

Colorized 4Kx4K SDO imagery of the prominence eruption.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, the SDO Science Team, and the Virtual Solar Observatory.

This page was originally published on Monday, February 11, 2013.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:03 AM EST.

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