Large Prominence Eruption and CME - March 9. 2024.

A large prominence eruption was detected by SDO on March 9th (beginning at 02:00 UTC). A partial halo CME was first observed in SOHO/LASCO-C2 coronagraph imagery at 05:12 UTC. The CME has a projected speed of 1562 km/s and a projected width of 130 degree (as measured by Cactus tool). Due to the main propagation direction of the CME being strongly south east from the Sun-Earth line, the CME-flank encounter is not possible at Earth but glancing blow cannot be excluded. Further analysis is going-on to investigate if this CME has Earth directed components. Thanks for watching! #CME #prominence #solareruption Images credit: SDO, SOHO/LASCO C2/C3, nemesis maturity channel, Music credit: YouTube Audio Library