Sun's Super Bowl Spitfire: Pre-Game Solar Fireworks

Space.com Monday 6th February, 2012

The Sun unleashed a whipping filament hundreds of thousands of miles long on Sunday February 5th, starting around 1:45pm EST. The display was caught by the many different filtered camera's aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

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