A RARE ‘super’ eruption was captured blasting out of the Sun, where four separate flares exploded almost simultaneously.
The incredible quadruple eruption was captured by Nasa’s space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
Solar flares are explosions of electromagnetic radiation from the sun’s chaotic surface.
They occur when magnetic energy builds up in the solar atmosphere.
On April 23, Nasa caught four bursts all from separate regions, hundreds of thousands of miles apart, on the solar surface.
“Events like this are called “sympathetic solar flares” – pairs of explosions that occur almost simultaneously in widely-spaced active regions,” according to Spaceweather.com.
“Today’s sympathetic flare was not a simple pair but a complex quartet …