• @Skanky
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    179 months ago

    Holy shit - that bit at 5 o’clock was a solar flare?!?! I could see that with no magnification whatsoever! Amazing!

    • @Zak
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      109 months ago

      It was a prominence, not a flare. A flare escapes the sun’s magnetic field while a prominence does not.

      • @Skanky
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        119 months ago

        Fair enough. I’m no astro-smith

      • deweydecibel
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        49 months ago

        Flares cause CME, and CME would appear like a prominence. CME and prominences are thought to be linked somehow, we’re not totally sure yet.