Sun Eruption

A portion of a solar filament erupted into space on 14 November. Solar filaments are structures made of gas cooler than the surroundings that are tethered magnetically to the Sun. A third of this filament rose up and broke away, but the other two-thirds can still be seen as an irregular diagonal line stretching from the edge of the image. The unbroken filament was a million kilometres long. 

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