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Blogs > loveisamyth > loveisamyth, stars are forever


loveisamyth 68M
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4/28/2015 12:22 pm

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4/30/2015 7:59 am
EXPLOSION ON THE SUN-continued
For days, astronomers have been monitoring a magnificent filament of magnetism stretching across the face of the sun. This morning, April 28th, it erupted. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the blast.



Hurled upward by magnetic instabilities, the erupting filament split the sun's atmosphere, creating a "canyon of fire." The glowing walls of the canyon trace the original channel where the filament was suspended by magnetic forces above the sun's surface. From end to end, the structure stretches more than 350,000 km, a real Grand Canyon.



A coronal mass ejection (CME) is also emerging from the blast site.



At first glance, the CME appears to be moving well away from the sun-Earth line. However, coronagraph data are too preliminary to rule out a glancing blow to our planet in the days ahead.

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