One half million mile solar filament

Monday, August 13, 2012 - 07:02 in Astronomy & Space

This image (above) from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a very long, whip-like solar filament extending over half a million miles in a long arc above the sun’s surface.

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