Widespread Solar Storm
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Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach in collaboration with NASA’s Universe of Learning partners: Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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- SDO time lapse observations of the Sun: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
- STEREO spacecraft time lapse of coronal mass ejection on April 17, 2021: NASA/STEREO-A/COR2
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Images of galaxies, star birthing centers, the planet Jupiter, and star clusters of varying sizes and ages against the black background of space.
Title, News from the Universe. Widespread Solar Storm. March 22, 2024. Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Text, Scientists have been following up on an unusually widespread outburst from the Sun on April 17, 2021.
High-speed protons and electrons from the eruption struck several spacecraft across the inner solar system and in orbit around Mars. An image of the Red Planet with a black hole in the center labeled Sun [Blocked]. Enormous flame clusters burst forth from the black center point.
Text, Together, the spacecraft point to particle ejections from several sources on the Sun, blasted in different directions, explaining the widespread nature of the event.
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Research like this is essential for learning to protect astronauts and technology in space from the harmful radiation of solar storms.
This news was brought to you in part by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.