Friday, December 12, 2014

Global Eruption Rocks the Sun - An Entire Hemisphere of the Sun Erupted

Global Eruption Rocks the Sun - An Entire Hemisphere of the Sun Erupted An entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers knew they had witnessed something big. This event really opened our eyes," says Karel Schrijver of Lockheed Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Lab in Palo Alto, CA.



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