Look at the ejection of solar plasma into space: it is more than 1.5 million km

An astrophotographer captured a beautiful image of a massive plume of plasma shooting out from the Sun. According to

author of the work, the fiery thread known asA coronal mass ejection (CME, Coronal mass ejections) spread into space at a distance of more than one and a half million kilometers from the surface of the Sun.

The image was taken by a professional astrophotographerand Arizona resident Andrew McCarthy on September 24. He shared the photo on Reddit on September 25th in the r/space subreddit. The CME was part of a minor solar storm—class G-1, the lowest category on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's geomagnetic storm scale.

A close-up of a CME flight into space. Image courtesy of Andrew McCarthy/@cosmic_background

The ethereal release was "the largest CME thatI’ve ever seen,” McCarthy wrote on Reddit. The plasma was initially contained in a large loop connected to the surface of the Sun, known as a prominence, and then broke apart and rushed into space at a speed of about 160,000 km/h.

Read more:

Catapult sends NASA satellites into the sky

A giant magnetic storm is approaching Earth

Recreate the Sun on Earth: how physicists solved the main problem of thermonuclear fusion

</ p>