The Sun in Stereo

Back on September 26th and 27th, a thirty hour solar eruption, called a solar prominence, occured on the Sun. An image from the event was featured a few days ago on Astronomy Picture of the Day.

A link on the site led to a video on YouTube showing the event from a few different perspectives.

An interesting tidbit I learned is that we have two satellites in Earth orbit around the Sun. One is ahead of our planet and the other is behind (as a side note, the two satellites are called Ahead and Behind...imaginative...or not). The angular separation of the two satellites is about 120 degrees...hence, we can know see the Sun in Stereo.

You can check out the filament eruption on the NASA site. From there, you can check out additional links and learn more about the STEREO project.