PICK OF THE WEEK: P-P-P-Popping Off

[SOHO]

Like a drum roll before the big moment, the Sun blasted out numerous smaller blasts of particles to the right before it unleashed a large, bright coronal mass ejection that was associated with an M-1 (medium-sized flare) during the period Jan. 26-28, 2011. SOHO's C2 coronagraph caught all the action. A smaller blast caused by an erupting filament flew out from the Sun's opposite edge almost simultaneously with that blast. In the still, we superimposed a Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) image of the Sun in extreme UV light taken at about the same as the coronagraph image.
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More... (http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/pickoftheweek/old/28jan2011/)

[taizen]

Thank you for these pictures. I went to the soho sight and watched a month's worth of video of the sun. Very active!
People like you that share their interests helps others, like myself, be aware of other avenues that connect to the 'bigger picture'. :)