Solar Eruption on 08-01-2010 Viewed by SDO (2 of 2) (VIDEO)

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This movie from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which loops twice, shows a 3.5-hour sequence of X-ray images of the Sun taken on Sunday, August 1. In the upper right, you can see a dark filament of plasma erupting outward, silhouetted against the solar globe. This Earth-directed eruption will reach us on the evening of August 3/4, potentially triggering a brilliant display of the Northern Lights.

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