Thursday, June 23, 2011

SOLAR FLARE !!!

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/gallery/assets/preview/M2_CME.jpg

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A Solar Flare That Will Blow Your Socks Off


By now many of you who follow the Sun have probably heard about the “solar flare that will blow your socks off,” which occurred in early morning of Sunday June 7. Here at the Chandra X-ray Center we watched it too -- with some pride as our colleagues downstairs with the Solar Dynamics Observatory were responsible for some of the movies that were being circulated around the Internet. On the one hand, an M2 is a medium-sized event and not usually a big deal. On the other hand, I also thought of a slogan written on my whiteboard a few years ago, “West limb worry.”