A New Kind of Explosion on the Sun (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Forced magnetic reconnection, caused by a prominence from the Sun, was seen for the first time in images from NASA's SDO. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGAHJXLIbKA Download in HD: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13422

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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