What Makes a Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejection

What Makes a "cannibal coronal mass ejection (CME)"

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00:00 Cannibal corona mass ejection. Yeah, that sounds a little terrifying

00:04 I mean, it's it's kind of funny, right?

00:06 because like just soon as we get over one kind of corona we get hit by another but like

00:10 This this one like a cannibal coronal mass ejection. Like if I break that down for you, it's caused by sunspots

00:16 So there's a sunspot on the Sun called like AR

00:19 2975 right now

00:21 And what it's been doing over the last say like few days is producing up to 17 solar eruptions

00:28 two of which

00:30 Were have headed straight towards us now. One of them was traveling faster than the other it was the one

00:36 Just like that came just after the first one that was emitted now

00:42 When those when that second Sun like the coronal mass ejection caught up with the first it cannibalized it

00:50 It's swept it all up into this one big wave of part of like these these charged particles and then they all

00:56 Swept towards the earth and then when they hit it they caused a geomagnetic storm

01:00 What where they come from in how sunspots are created is?

01:04 Magnetic fields are created on the Sun like the Sun is just a giant ball of plasma

01:09 So like there's loads of charged particles

01:11 Eddying and moving around on like inside the Sun across the Sun's surface now when you have charged particles moving

01:18 You're gonna induce some magnetism there

01:20 But because magnetic field lines can't cross and you've got all these moving particles

01:25 But this giant traffic jam of particles moving everywhere. You'll inevitably get these field lines bunched up next to each other

01:31 They'll form into these tight knots that can't escape anywhere else and eventually they will have to snap and release energy

01:38 now they release energy either in the form of a solar flare like a bright flare of radiation or

01:43 They'll release energy in the form of like chucking out some of that plasma from the Sun

01:48 What's the difference between solar flares and Ronald mass ejections?

01:52 So solar flares is just the bright flash that you'll see of radiation

01:56 I'm from that from that field line snapping that energy release a coronal mass ejection is some of the Sun's like plasma soup

02:04 Actually being like burped out of the Sun. I love that phrase plasma soup. Mm-hmm. Yeah tasty

02:10 I mean pretty

02:13 But I mean a little terrifying right? I mean