Canyon of Fire: Solar Wind-Spitting 12,000 Mile-Deep Chasm Opens on Sun

[Manuel Tavares]

Canyon of Fire: Solar Wind-Spitting 12,000 Mile-Deep Chasm Opens on Sun

Por Svetlana Ekimenko

Posted on April 8, 2022.

 

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Back in 2013, NASA shared a video of an eruption on the Sun that left a fissure of fire over 200,000 miles long across its surface.

A huge solar chasm – at least 12,400 miles (20,000 kilometres) deep and 10 times as long – opened on the surface of the Sun on 3 April, according to Space Weather.

The massive fissure, which resulted in powerful streams of magnetised solar winds being unleashed, was discovered by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Satellites in the extreme ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum as well as ground telescopes equipped to observe in the infrared wavelengths were able to zoom in on the eruptions. Two previous solar flares were reported over the weekend.

The UK weather forecaster, the Met Office, confirmed the ejection of two “filament eruptions” from the canyon in the south-central part of the Sun and blasting out into space.

The first erupted from the Sun on 3 April, at around 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), while the second followed on 4 April at about 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT).

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) – expulsions of charged plasma from the Sun’s upper atmosphere (corona) – accompanied the eruptions, said the Met offic...>>>https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/04/canyon-of-fire-solar-wind-sp...