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Nasa today released stunning video showing a 500,000 mile long 'solar whip' on the surface of the sun - and say radiation from it is headed for eath.
Captured by from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), it shows a very long, whip-like solar filament extending over half a million miles in a long arc above the sun’s surface.
The filaments are cooler clouds of solar material that are tethered above the sun’s surface by unstable magnetic forces.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2197675/Here-comes-sun-Astonishing-solar-whip-half-million-miles-long-spotted-solar-surface.html#ixzz25U5lxApv
Here comes the sun: Astonishing 'whip' half a million miles long spotted on solar surface (and scientists say radiation from it is heading for earth)
Captured by from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), this amazing image 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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