This Is What It Looks Like When the Sun Erupts 5.47K Max Read 12/07/10 12:17AM Filed to: Pic of the evening Pic of the evening the SUn Space Solar prominence Gas Stars whoa Tweetg Tweetv Fb [This is the sun, as photographed in ultraviolet by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. That huge plasma loop in the lower left? It's a solar prominence, around 400,000 miles long. Video of it forming below.][SDO via Bad Astronomy]
