The Sun is currently in an active phase of its 11-year weather cycle

On April 16, from NASA's SDO orbit observation record, a spectacular explosion in the solar corona and captured their images. Astrophysicists consider it the most ostentatious eruption since the launching of this probe, which specializes in solar activity, in February 2010.

The NASA said in a statement that the plasma current caused no threat to Earth, since it is directed in another direction. Furthermore, the magnitude of the flames the solar storm has been blamed on the middle class (M1) and is not the most powerful so far in 2012. However, the turn to the left in the captured images only more impressive visual effect, allow scientists.

The coronal mass ejection occurred in a region of the Sun is very active and could be responsible for the magnetic storm of last Sunday. The Sun is currently in an active phase of its 11-year weather cycle, says the astrophysicists, and is expected to reach peak levels of activity in 2013.