00:00An unusual eruption on the Sun may offer clues to understanding our star's mysterious explosions.
00:08Solar eruptions are massive releases of material off the surface of the Sun.
00:16This material can travel across the solar system, to Earth and Mars.
00:25The radiation and the material from the Sun can interact with the planet's magnetic fields, affecting astronauts and technology.
00:36Eruptions on the Sun usually come in one of three forms.
00:40Coronal mass ejections, jets, and partial eruptions.
00:47The new research studied an event named the Rosetta Stone of solar eruptions.
00:52Just as the Rosetta Stone was the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphics,
00:57studying this eruption could be the key to understanding all types of solar eruptions.
01:03In the Rosetta Stone eruption, all three types of eruptions happened in the same event.
01:09They usually occur separately.
01:14The main eruption was too big to be a jet, but too narrow to be a coronal mass ejection.
01:19A second cooler layer of material on the surface of the Sun also started to erupt about a half an
01:25hour later.
01:27But, it fell back down as a partial solar eruption.
01:32This Rosetta Stone of solar eruptions will also give clues to help scientists predict large eruptions in the future.
01:41The better our predictions are, the more time we have to prepare for material from the Sun to interact with
01:47Earth's magnetic field.
01:52Predicting large solar eruptions can help better protect our astronauts and technology, near Earth and beyond.
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