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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: September 9, 2012

PICTURE AND VIDEO OF THE WEEK: SOLAR FLARE

by Hazed

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has videoed the emergence of a solar filament at the end of last month. This had been hanging around in the corona of the sun since the beginning of August, and then erupted into space early in the morning on Friday August 31.

Take a look at this incredible picture that shows the solar filament reaching out from the sun, and watch a video showing it shooting out into space at 900 miles a second.

When this coronal mass ejection reached Earth three days later, it caused some spectacular auroras, too, and the link above also shows a picture.