Solar Ballet on the Sun

A solar eruption
April 4, 2018
CreditNASA/SDO/Steele Hill
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The Earth is superimposed on this image to give readers a sense of the scale. The length of the eruption extends about 160,000 miles out from the Sun. With Earth about 7,900 miles in diameter, this relatively minor eruption is about 20 times the diameter of our planet.