SOLAR ACTIVITY UPDATE: Erupting Filament/CME/Glancing Blow(Feb 10th, 2013).
- 11 years ago
EARTH-DIRECTED ERUPTION: On Saturday, February 9th, around 06:40 UT, a magnetic filament in the sun's northern hemisphere erupted, hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the UV flash from the underlying C2-class solar flare: http://www.spaceweather.com/