A Dangerous Neighbourhood
Posted in Astronomy at 19:16 on 2 June 2014
Below is a video of a solar coronal mass ejection on 9/5/14 as observed by NASA’s IRIS satellite.
The eruption occurs at 1.5 million miles per hour. You don’t want to get in the way of that.
Tags: Astronomy Picture of the Day, coronal mass ejection, IRIS, NASA