Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sun - August 1, 2010.jpg

The sun with a lot of activity

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Original - This image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory of the news-making solar event on August 1 shows the C3-class solar flare (white area on upper left), a solar tsunami (wave-like structure, upper right), multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale shaking of the solar corona, radio bursts, a coronal mass ejection and more. This multi-wavelength extreme ultraviolet snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the sun's northern hemisphere in mid-eruption. Different colors in the image represent different gas temperatures. Earth's magnetic field is still reverberating from the solar flare impact on August 3, 2010, which sparked aurorae as far south as Wisconsin and Iowa in the United States.

Reason

I think this picture has high EV and it is a fine picture of the recent eruption on the sun, which lead to the polar lights covered in the news. It's also rare as it shows a solar tsunami in the upper right. Though it's not perfect, I think it deserves a FP. What's your opinion?

Articles in which this image appears

Sun, Solar Flare

FP category for this image

Space/Astronomy

Creator

NASA/SDO/AIA - edited by Hive001

• Support as nominator --Hive001 contact 14:36, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
• Comment I'm sure I've seen higher quality versions of the Sun and this image. Also, there are better images available to illustrate Solar flare than what are used on that page, like these: [1][2][3][4], but those are mostly flares and prominences --I'ḏ♥One 15:25, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Well, this is a picture of the whole sun and not only flares and prominences. What I really like here is the solar tsunami. I've never seen that before Hive001 contact 16:31, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

• Support Wow. Just... wow. --Lucas Brown 15:26, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Greg L (talk) 19:30, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support Very compelling. Cowtowner (talk) 03:48, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
• Support Knew this was going to come to Wikipedia when I saw it in... Scientific American, I think. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 09:07, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:Sun_-_August_1,_2010.jpgPapa Lima Whiskey (talk) 16:12, 21 August 2010 (UTC)