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NASA watches the Sun put a stop to its own eruption
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NASA watches the Sun put a stop to its own eruption
August 11, 2017 by Lina Tran
NASA watches the Sun put a stop to its own eruption

On Sept. 30, 2014, multiple NASA observatories watched what appeared to be the beginnings of a solar eruption. A filament—a serpentine structure consisting of dense solar material and often associated with solar eruptions—rose from the surface, gaining energy and speed as it soared. But instead of erupting from the Sun, the filament collapsed, shredded to pieces by invisible magnetic forces.

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-nasa-sun-eruption.html
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