Watch a Gigantic Solar Eruption Happen in Slow Motion

NASA’s new solar observatory caught a gigantic solar flare on video for the first time — and it's pretty amazing

The coronal mass ejection (CME) was recorded by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)According to NASA, the eruption was the width of about five Earths and the height of about seven and a half Earths

A CME occurs when a burst of hot plasma from the sun’s surface causes the acceleration of particles to flow past the sun's corona or outer atmosphere and into space. The main goal of IRIS, which launched last year, is to understand how the solar atmosphere is energized. Read more...