Awesome video of the sun erupting 100,000 miles of plasma
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Awesome video of the sun erupting a 100,000 mile high “stream” of plasma.
There are also incredible still images of the sun in the Space dot com link:
“Astrophotographer Mark Johnston got a front row seat to an epic fireworks show.
Johnston, a NASA solar system ambassador and vice president of the Phoenix Astronomical Society, was observing the sun in late August with a custom telescope when he captured images of incredible arcs of plasma (super heated gases) known as solar prominences rising to incredible heights above the surface of our star.
Johnston assembled the images he got of the solar spectacle into the stunning video above.
“The height of the largest of the two prominences in the video is about 160K km or 100K miles,” Johnston told Space.com via email.
“For the video, I took about 100 540-frame videos 25 seconds apart, so that the time lapse video represents about an hour of real time activity on the sun. Some images in the video are more blurry than others due to momentary changes in atmospheric seeing conditions. …”