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Solar explosion forms ‘Canyon of Fire’

FILAMENT OF FIRE  A searing filament of charged particles blasted away from the sun at more than 3 million kilometers per hour leaving behind a scar shown in red-orange.

Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA

By Andrew Grant

- More than 2 years ago

Just when the sun was looking especially lethargic, a violent eruption left behind a vast chasm of superheated gas on the solar surface.