Solar Activity & SR

The Sun Today

Holy moly indeed! This is one ginormous outburst of goodness-knows how many gigatons of Cosmic Plasma! As The Sun Today pointed out, the size of this prominence is bigger than the diameter of our Sun. Please head over to their fb page for more details, including their full video. I have gif'd this part:

Then there's this M7.4-flare:

The Sun Today

.....and another massive prominence at the back, gif'd:

Again, please head to The Sun Today for the complete video.

Both these eruptions are spreading Cosmic Plasma to other parts of our Solar System and are not Earth-facing, but that in no way means we don't sense it in some degree. 

 

This was the M7.4-flare, and we're still getting that heart-beat rhythm happening:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

And the busy-busy-busy SR:

Space Observing System