NASA
scientists have discovered an eight lakh kilometres long 'solar whip' on the
surface of the Sun and warned that some radiation from it is headed for Earth
on Tuesday.
Solar Radiation |
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured a very long, whip-like solar filament in a long arc above the sun's surface, the Daily Mail reported
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration spaceweather prediction center estimates that a cloud of
radiation from the eruption will reach Earth today.
The
radiation cloud will create a minor to moderate geomagnetic storm, bringing the
northern lights to parts of North America.
A
'solar whip' or filament is caused when a red glowing loop of plasma erupts,
releasing the plasma out in huge loops hundreds of thousands of miles into
space.
The image and video of the filament
released by NASA covers August 6 to 8, 2012.
"Towards
the end of the video part of the filament seems to break away, but its basic
length and shape seem to have remained mostly intact," NASA said.
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