SOLAR ERUPTION

Two spacecraft observing the sun captured a dramatic eruption from the surface of the sun over a 30-hour period in late September.

The twin spacecraft, called Behind and Ahead because of their relative positions in space, captured the solar event, known as a solar prominence.

Prominences, called filaments when they are viewed against the surface of the sun, are clouds of cooler gas suspended above the sun’s surface by magnetic forces. They can travel at 1,000 kilometres per second.

Promincences, also knonw as coronal mass ejections, are not as dangerous as solar flares, which can disrupt telecommunications on Earth.

Here are some photos of the eruption.

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