C3-class solar flare - August 1st, 2010 - SDO AIA 304

On August 1st around 0855 UT, Earth orbiting satellites detected a C3-class solar flare. The origin of the blast was sunspot 1092. At about the same time, an enormous magnetic filament stretching across the sun's northern hemisphere erupted. Video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Courtesy of SDO (NASA) and the AIA consortium.
Video originally posted on http://spaceweather.com/

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[NScott45]

DAMN NATURE, YOU SCARY!

[TotallyRandomVideos9]

kurts most viewed video is only 8 seconds...

[HaloXIIII]

@pinkbirdsfly not for a long time?

[MrWundrful]

ahh it burns i looked directly at the sun

[Suparian]

i used to think the sun was made of lava when seeing these pictures, and that you could surf on the solar flares...

ah, blissful ignorance

[Juntahh]

my birthday lol you better be scared

[iwineverytime88]

@buckygirl17 ya sorry your WRONG.

[buckygirl17]

That's not a flare. That's an erupting filament.

[bogieman987]

@CadetBrandon lol

[CadetBrandon]

@bogieman987 haha why not lol, wait,except the fat ones

[bogieman987]

@CadetBrandon Ide still advise everyone 16+ to have sex before December 21st 2012 just in case lol