The team at Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured on video an incredible flare tearing from the surface of the Sun.
The event erupted from the star on 31 August 2012, ripping into space at nearly 1500 kilometres per second. These huge bursts of solar energy are equivalent to around 160,000,000,000 megatons of TNT, and eject clouds of electrons, ions and atoms into space.
By: Duncan Geere,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/09/solar-flare-nasa
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