Tuesday, 16 October 2012
The most awesomest picture you?ll see today
Yes, this is better than that photo of your kids trying on Halloween costumes today that got 3 billion likes from friends and family members on Facebook. And yes, it’s real. The photo shows the effects of a coronal mass ejection — �large clouds of plasma and magnetic field that erupt from the sun –�striking Earth’s magnetic field. A large coronal mass ejection can contain a billion tons of matter, which can be accelerated to several million miles per hour. Auroras on Earth that result from such impacts can be spectacular, as evidenced in the photograph above taken by Hugo L�hre over�Lekangsund, Norway, last Wednesday. Such outbursts from the Sun Read More
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