Five days of flares and CME's – 26 M and X-class solar flares
This movie shows 23 of the 26 M- and X-class flares on the Sun between 18:00 UTC on October 23 and 15:00 UTC on October 28, 2013, as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. It also shows the coronal mass ejections, great clouds of solar material bursting off the sun into space, during that time as captured by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
Timeline of M and X class eruptions: October 23 – 29, 2013
- October 23, 2013 – 20:53 UTC – M2.7 from Region 1875
- October 23, 2013 – 23:43 UTC – M1.4 from Region 1875
- October 24, 2013 – 00:08 UTC – M3.1 from Region 1875
- October 24, 2013 – 00:30 UTC – M9.3 from Region 1877
- October 24, 2013 – 10:09 UTC – M2.5 from Region 1875
- October 24, 2013 – 10:33 UTC – M3.5 from Region 1875
- October 25, 2013 – 03:02 UTC – M2.9 from Region 1882
- October 25, 2013 – 08:01 UTC – X1.7 from Region 1882 – Global eruption on the Sun
- October 25, 2013 – 10:11 UTC – M1.0 from Region 1882
- October 25, 2013 – 15:03 UTC – X2.1 from Region 1882 – Very bright CME produced. Glancing blow expected on October 28.
- October 25, 2013 -17:09 UTC – M1.3 from Region 1882
- October 25, 2013 -19:21 UTC – M2.3 from Region 1882
- October 25, 2013 – 20:58 UTC – M1.9 from Region 1882
- October 26, 2013 – 06:06 UTC – M2.3 from Region 1882
- October 26, 2013 – 09:37 UTC – M1.5 from Region 1882
- October 26, 2013 – 11:17 UTC – M1.8 from Region 1882
- October 26, 2013 – 19:27 UTC – M3.1 from Region 1884
- October 26, 2013 – 19:53 UTC – M1.0 from Region 1882
- October 27, 2013 – 12:48 UTC – M3.5 from Region 1875
- October 28, 2013 – 02:03 UTC – X1.0 from Region 1875 – Bright CME. Glancing blow expected on October 31.
- October 28, 2013 – 04:41 UTC – M5.1 from Region 1875
- October 28, 2013 – 11:52 UTC – M1.4 from Region 1877
- October 28, 2013 – 14:05 UTC – M2.8 from Region 1875
- October 28, 2013 – 15:01 UTC – M2.7 from Region 1882
- October 28, 2013 – 15:15 UTC – M4.4 from Region 1882
- October 28, 2013 – 20:57 UTC – M1.5 from Region 1875
- October 29, 2013 – 21:54 UTC – X2.3 from Region 1875
Featured image and video credit: NASA Goddard
Music: "Stella Nova" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of the artist and Ultimae records. www.lars-leonhard.de / www.ultimae.com
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