Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Glowing brightly in extreme ultraviolet light, the hot plasma entrained above the Sun along arching magnetic fields is cooling and raining back down on the solar surface. Hours earlier, on November 8th, astronomers had watched this particular active region produce a not so spectacular solar flare. Still, the M-class flare spewed forth an intense storm of particles , suddenly showering satellites near the Earth with high energy protons. The flare event was also associated with a large coronal mass ejection , a massive cloud of material which impacted our fair planet's magnetic field about 31 hours later.
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