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CaliforniaMama 04-24-2012 02:13 AM

April 23, 2012 Solar Loop
 
http://cellar.org/2012/solar loop sp...nence_3369.jpg

This loop of plasma, is known as a "prominence."

The escaping cloud of charged gas is pictured tethered to the sun at two ends by magnetic forces, but it eventually became unstable and broke free, twisting away into space.

From NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

Image courtesy SDO/NASA

SPUCK 04-24-2012 06:01 AM

Littering.

Why O why do they keep letting this happen?


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