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M3, 9 Class Solar Flare – Eruption East of the Sun & Large Solar Prominenence with CME at the South-West – May 10, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013 5:57
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Sun Update: May 9 -10,2013
M3.9 Flare / Returning Sunspot 1726
Old Sunspot 1726 is proving to be a bit of a firecracker. The returning active region hiding just off the east limb produced a C9.0 solar flare at 23:00 UTC, followed by a stronger M3.9 event at 00:53 UTC.
The sunspot rotation will carry the active region back into Earth view within the next 24 hours.
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image:NASA-SDO AIA 131
Large Prominence Eruption off the southwest limb on Thursday afternoon. A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is visible in the latest STEREO Ahead COR2 imagery.
Because of the eruption location, the plasma cloud will be directed away from Earth.
These pictures are from NASA, and Were taken from the AIA instrument of the satellite SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory), with a wavelengths of 304 and 131 Angstroms. this movie was produced by helioviewer org.
image:NASA-SDO AIA 304
IMAGE OF THE DAY – NASA-ISS
IMAGE: NASA-ISS
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