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Massive Filament Eruption, with Superimposed Earth for Scale

Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2012
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Massive Filament Eruption, with Superimposed Earth for Scale
Image credit: NASA/SDO/AIA

Uploader comment: A long filament erupted on the sun on August 31, 2012, shown here in this still captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The eruption lasted from noon EDT to 1:45 am the next morning.


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