Positively Radiant: Amazing Pictures Of Recent Solar Storm
The sun erupted late on Sunday, January 22, causing the strongest solar radiation storm since September 2005. The solar storm has the potential to disrupt some satellite communications and bring some auroras to high-latitude skies, but isn’t a danger to humans on Earth. NASA has more on the solar storm here. This filter shows where cooler dense plumes of plasma are located above the visible surface of the Sun, according to NASA. Many of the following images wouldn’t be visible to the naked or, or even many telescopes. (via Positively Radiant | TPM Media)
