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NASA's SDO Sees Massive Filament Erupt on Sun

On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, travelled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, with a glancing blow. causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3.
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Credit: NASA SDO

a huge solar filament erupted off the sun on August 31, 2012. The video segment in the 304 angstroms wavelength (red coloured Sun) covers approximately 3 hours. 



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