August 1st CME

WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES

11.05.2010

Courtesy Photo

NASA

On August 1st, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. There was a C3-class solar flare (white area on upper left), a solar tsunami (wave-like structure, upper right), multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale shaking of the solar corona, radio bursts, a coronal mass ejection and more. This multi-wavelength (211, 193 & 171 Angstrom) extreme ultraviolet snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the sun's northern hemisphere in mid-eruption. Different colors in the image represent different gas temperatures ranging from 1 to 2 million degrees K. Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA

NASA Identifier: 473530main_f_211_193_171-orig

• Date Taken: 11.05.2010
• Date Posted: 02.08.2013 19:59
• Photo ID: 857559
• Resolution: 4096x4096
• Size: 755.85 KB
• Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., US