1. 21 Aug


    rhamphotheca: ‘Magical’ Solar Storm The sun fired off a spectacular eruption last weekend, and a NASA spacecraft captured amazing video of the violent solar outburst.  A super-hot solar filament erupted in grand style Saturday (Aug. 4), arcing into space and connecting two huge sunspots. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft had a front-row seat for the action, and its video footage of the sun eruption is both bizarre and beautiful. [Full Story: Amazing Video Captures Magical-Looking Sun Storm]  (via: Live Science)     (photo: NASA/SDO)

    rhamphotheca:

    ‘Magical’ Solar Storm

    The sun fired off a spectacular eruption last weekend, and a NASA spacecraft captured amazing video of the violent solar outburst.  A super-hot solar filament erupted in grand style Saturday (Aug. 4), arcing into space and connecting two huge sunspots. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft had a front-row seat for the action, and its video footage of the sun eruption is both bizarre and beautiful.

    [Full Story: Amazing Video Captures Magical-Looking Sun Storm] 

    (via: Live Science)     (photo: NASA/SDO)

    (via skippinthroughlife)