Achi news desk-
A new video of the Sun’s surface captured an eruption larger than the size of Earth.
The European Space Agency recently shared images of the “ever-changing solar landscape” taken by its Solar Orbiter in September of last year.
It showed golden hair-like structures of gas emerging from the sun, which can reach heights of up to 10,000 kilometers.
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A small burst of cooler material rising and then collapsing to the surface was also captured by the instrument.
“Don’t be fooled by the use of ‘small’ here: this eruption is bigger than Earth,” the European Space Agency said.
The bright areas visible in vision reach about a million degrees Celsius, while the dark areas absorb radiation.
The orbiter made its closest approach to the fiery planet at a distance of about 43 million kilometers – about a third of Earth’s distance from the Sun.
At the same time, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe passed about 7 million kilometers from the Sun’s surface to measure particles and the magnetic field.
“This was a perfect opportunity for the two missions to connect, with the ESA-led Solar Orbiter remote sensing instruments observing the source region of the solar wind that will then flow past the Parker Solar Probe,” the European Space Agency said.
