Solar "Tsunami": Giant Double Sun Eruption Caught on Video

by Graham Bartlett

The following from National Geographic Daily News.More amazing pictures......

NASA's space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the images over a four-hour period.

The giant loops, called solar prominences, occurred between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. ET on Friday.

Many times larger than the entire Earth, the prominences were so large that they expanded beyond the high-definition camera view of the SDO.

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