Spaceweather.com reports on a recent solar event:
Source: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory
SOLAR PROMINENCE: A giant cloud of plasma is dancing over the sun’s western limb today. Shown here in a snapshot from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, the structure is more than 80,000 km tall and could swallow our planet more than 50 times with room to spare.
I really like that picture. It reminds me that all of our contretemps on this puny globe could be erased by the solar hiccup of a trivial little star on the edge of a mediocre galaxy.
