Terjadi Ledakan Besar di Matahari, 7 Juni 2011

Pagi dini terjadi ledakan di matahari yang cukup dahsyat. Hal tersebut terjadi hari ini, 7 Juni 2011. Untuk para pembaca, jangan terlalu panik. Tidak akan terjadi bahaya dari hal tersebut. Namun kita tetap harus waspada dari pengamatan tersebut yang menunjukan ledakan yang spektakuler. Berikut kutipan yang saya dapat dari blogs.discovermagazine.com :
"Early this morning, the Sun erupted with an explosion I can only describe as ginormous. We’re in no danger from it, but the size and scope of this thing are simply spectacular."
"What you’re seeing here is a solar flare (an enormous explosion of pent-up magnetic energy) coupled with a prominence (a physical eruption of gas from the surface). This event blasted something like a billion tons of material away from the Sun. Note the size of it, too: while it started from a small region on the Sun’s surface, it quickly expanded into a plume easily as big as the Sun itself! I’d estimate its size at well over a million kilometers across. It looks like most of the material fell back down to the Sun’s surface; that’s common, though sometimes such an event manages to blast the material completely away into space."

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