CaliforniaMama Tuesday Apr 24 03:13 AMApril 23, 2012 Solar Loop
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 Tuesday Apr 24 07:01 AMLittering.
Why O why do they keep letting this happen?
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