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Spectacular Filament Eruption on the Sun Captured by SDO
Yikes! Not to be outdone by the Blue Moon, the Sun had some impressive action on August 31, 2012 as well. A solar filament collapsed and and exploded, and the Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the action in dramatic detail. The view in extreme ultraviolet light is simply jaw-dropping! The segment in the 304 angstroms wavelength (where the Sun looks red) covers almost 3 hours of elapsed time.
The SDO team says that long filaments like this one have been known to collapse with explosive results when they hit the stellar surface below.
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2012-09-01 11:40:12
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