The Sun as You’ve Never Seen It Before

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory snapped this X-ray photo of the Sun early in the morning of Sunday, August 1st. The dark arc near the top right edge of the image is a filament of plasma blasting off the surface — part of the coronal mass ejection. The bright region is a un-associated solar flare. When particles from the eruption reached the Earth, they triggered a brilliant auroral display known as the Northern Lights.

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