A Prominent Prominence!

October 9th, 2008 at 1:56 am by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog

<—Click the first image to see a GIANT solar prominence that occurred on Sept. 29.  This cloud of hydrogen was large enough to swallow 100 Earths!   The image & movie are from NASA’s Stereo A Spacecraft.  The sun is still free of sunspots.  Click here to get the latest information on visible flyovers of the International Space Station (we missed one 10/7 because it was cloudy).  The solar wind from the coronal holes in the pix. on the right may reach Earth on Friday.  Click to launch a 1.4 MB movie

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  1. Watchman Tyler from Jenison/Ottawa Co. says:
    October 9, 2008 at 8:46 am

    what will the solar wind do?

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  2. Bob P. :o) (St.Johns) says:
    October 9, 2008 at 9:13 am

    solar winds typically hit our earth and create aurora’s…..

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