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Snaking Filament Eruption
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A filament (which at one point had an eerie similarity to a snake) broke away from the sun and out into space (Nov. 1, 2014). The video covers just over three hours of activity. This kind of eruptive event is called a Hyder flare. These are filaments (elongated clouds of gases above the sun's surface) that erupt and cause a brightening at the sun's surface, although no active regions are in that area. It did thrust out a cloud of particles but not towards Earth.
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Credit lineSnaking Filament Eruption. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000896.
