Morning of June 7th around 06:41 UT, magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1226-1227 became unstable and erupted. The blast produced an M2-class solar flare, an S1-class radiation storm, and a massive CME. A recording of the blastfrom NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory ranks as one of the most beautiful and dramatic movies of the SDO era. This video of the massive solar flare and ensuing solar prominence should reveal all. “I’ve never seen material released like this before, such a huge amount that falls back down in such a spectacular way,” says Goddard Spaceflight Center’s Dr. C. Alex Young in their video, in which he does a thorough job of explaining exactly what you’re looking at. “It looks like someone just kicked a giant clod of dirt into the air and it fell back down.”
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