The Sun erupts!

On April 16, 2012 a minor flare on the Sun triggered a HUGE eruption of ionized gas off the surface. This prominence stretched for hundreds of thousands of kilometers, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory got great shots of it! I collected a few into a video, and the detail is amazing and incredibly beautiful.

Credits: NASA/SDO/Helioviewer.org

Music: "Feral Chase" by Kevin MacLeod, http://www.incompetech.com Direct link: http://music.incompetech.com/royaltyf...

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[Kyle Rybski]

That is, in fact, the current year. Well done.

[Poxypriest]

Ominous music, are you trying to scare us, lol

[Hercules Rockefeller]

Musta been that bean i ate

[SpectreNight]

The sun is pretty scary, specially considering it's size.

[dolphinsc1]

sorry I see where you list the music. at the end of the video.

like teacher use to say, read all the paragraph. LOL

thank you

[dolphinsc1]

no complaints, not at all! but i wish you'd list the name of the music with your video, it's awesome.

No complaints, thanks for your work. it's very very interesting.

thank you

[dolphinsc1]

Are the sun flares for the pasr two years the cause for the heating up of the galaxy, earth and other planets?

thank you

[Andy Harglesis]

Strange Anomaly Found In The Sky: /watch?v=xIZU9QYPwzQ

[PatricktheDoody]

Incredible!

[Travis Trout]

I wonder what this would look like from Mercury.

[terrapin52]

Don't piss off Sun-god!