The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere. reading time 1 minute On July 15, a solar filament erupted from the Sun’s upper left ...
On Tuesday, astronomers watched as a vast 'bird wing' eruption sent waves of superheated plasma surging across the sun's northern hemisphere. At over 600,000 miles long (one million km), the filament ...