SOLAR ERUPTION: Another huge prominence blasted away from the sun yesterday, April 19th. The massive tendril of plasma was nearly a quarter the diameter of the sun itself when the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) snapped this picture:
Above: A solar prominence erupts on April 19th at 1919 UT
The eruption catapulted a billion-ton CME out of the sun's atmosphere. SOHO saw that, too: movie:
The expanding cloud is not heading for Earth, so we should feel no effects. The event was photogenic but not geoeffective.
