Gigantic Solar Bulge Captured in Breathtaking Time-Lapse Video

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Astrophotographer Miguel Claro is a professional photographer and ambassador for the European Southern Observatory (ESO) who creates breathtaking images of the night sky. While he previously captured the attention of a video of a green Neanderthal comet passing Earth again after 50,000 years, he now boasts a breathtaking sequence of a solar bulge.

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Gigantic waterfall of plasma on the Sun

The well-known photographer from Portugal is definitely not kidding. He just released a beautiful time-lapse video that shows a huge loop of plasma dancing across the surface of the Sun. “This feature, known as a solar bulge, was visible on February 6 and 7 last year,” writes Miguel Claro on his website. “The bulge then exploded, sending a giant plume of plasma known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space.”

During two days, the astrophotographer carefully observed the bulge and took pictures, which he then combined into a time-lapse sequence showing the behavior and evolution of the hot object. “The end result is a high definition 4K movie that contains 5 hours of footage. “According to my pixel measurements, this bulge was about ten times the height of the planet Earth and stretched thousands of kilometers across the solar disk,” explained the astrophotographer.

Claro captured time-lapse video from the Alqueva Dark Sky Observatory in Portugal using a QUY5III174M camera and a Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Professional telescope with a Daystar Quark Prominence filter.

The star’s activity is increasing

Next year, solar activity should culminate in an eleven-year cycle, so eruptions should be more frequent and stronger, as well as an increased number of sunspots. According to some experts, the approaching solar maximum is likely to be the strongest in a hundred years.

You can already tell that solar activity is getting wilder and wilder. In mid-November, satellites captured an eruption so massive that it disrupted the Sun’s magnetic field. These eruptions are called “coronal mass ejections”.

Preview photo source: ipicgr / Pixabay, source: Space

2023-12-23 19:07:38
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