Our closest star’s latest intense expulsion of plasma was captured by sun-watching observatories on Tuesday.
The sun itself is blocked out to better show what’s happening around it.
Battams put it into perspective with afollow-up imagefrom SOHO’sLarge Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument.
The white circle in the center is the actual size of the sun.
That’s good news since the sun’s eruptions can disrupt spacecraft, satellites and communications systems on Earth.
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It looks like 2023 could be another great year for sun gazing.
