A Solar Eruption in 5 Steps

Scientists from Durham University in the United Kingdom and NASA now propose that a universal mechanism can explain the whole spectrum of solar eruptions. They used 3-D computer simulations to demonstrate that a variety of eruptions can theoretically be thought of as the same kind of event, only in different sizes and manifested in different ways. Their work is summarized in a paper published in Nature on April 26, 2017. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/... Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Genna Duberstein Music credit: Prism Mystery by Donn Wilkerson This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12588 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel:    / nasaexplorer   Or subscribe to NASA’s Goddard Shorts HD Podcast: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/f... Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook:   / nasa.gsfc   · Twitter   / nasagoddard   · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram   / nasagoddard   · Google+ http://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/p...