Global eruption rocks the Sun: Scientists re-evaluate ideas about solar storms
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 16:31
in Astronomy & Space
On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers knew they had witnessed something big. It was so big, it may have shattered old ideas about solar activity.