A million-mile-long giant cloud rising from the sun’s surface captured by astrophotograph: Stunning image shows glowing plasma stream moving at 100,000 miles as it glides into space
- An amateur astrophotographer took over a million photos of the sun over a six-hour span.
- A solar storm exploded, causing the biggest flash of sunshine ever witnessed.
- A cloud of plasma began to form from the bulge, which grew until it was about a million miles long, then broke off and floated into space until it disappeared.
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An amateur astrophotographer pointed his telescope at the sun and observed that a cloud rising from the fiery surface at 100,000 miles per hour reached a length of one million miles.
Andrew McCarthywho lives arizonaHe told DailyMail.com that he spent six hours taking more than a million photos, which he ‘put together’ for the final image – but because the feather was so large he was only able to capture half of it in the photo.
The ejection of energetic and highly magnetized, superheated gas, or coronal mass ejection (CME), was released from what McCarthy said was the largest solar bulge he had ever witnessed – the bright feature protruding from the surface was about 500,000 miles wide.
The day McCarthy observed the sun was also a day when a small solar storm flared up on the sun, leading to the formation of great significance that caught his attention.
“I’ve noticed that great importance is starting to rise – a clear sign that something exciting is about to happen,” he said.
‘So I kept my telescope pointed [at] and followed the CME form.
‘These are the moments solar astronomers live.’
Andrew McCarthy caught a huge cloud bursting from the sun. The plasma stream stretched for about a million miles. The event took place during a minor solar storm
A massive cloud formed on September 24, the day a solar storm erupted in the sun.
However, the storm was in the lowest category and may have been missed by eyes on Earth.
According to McCarthy, the cloud of plasma began to appear from the giant bulge and then broke off and flew into space at about 100,000 miles per hour. live tweet event.
The images were taken using a modified five-inch refractor telescope, which McCarthy says ‘needs to be modified because pointing a telescope at the sun would otherwise blind you’.
The plume began to grow slowly, reaching 200,000 miles and then 600,000, then more than a million and split into space.
‘This is the distance from Earth to JWST [Jame Webb Space Telescope]’ he tweeted.
McCarthy, who and gallery Consisting of stunning images showing the wonders of space, he kept his eyes on the plume for at least two hours, watching it snap off and float into space, where the initially superheated gas turned into a moon-sized block instead of a roaring ball. was.
And the farther away it went, the paler it got.
“The prominence you see in the photo is about 500,000 miles, maybe a little less,” McCarthy told DailyMail.com.
McCarthy took over a million photos of the sun and put them together for the final piece. He watched the feather grow until it broke off and floated into space. A raw image he took in the picture
‘It’s easy to visualize when you realize the sun is 865,000 miles wide!
‘The little bits I followed in my live tweets were a million miles away, but they weren’t included in the final photo.’
McCarthy went on to explain that because so many images were used, he incorporated a technique called ‘lucky imaging’ into his shots.
“I use the TIFF format (many astrophotographers use the video format) because I think it gives me more control over rejecting bad frames when the wind picks up or I see conditions deteriorate,” he said.
Our atmosphere sometimes complicates things.”
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