NASA witnesses largest sunburst in 15 years

The twin, golf cart-size spacecraft of NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission filmed, in ultraviolet light, the largest solar “prominence” in 15 years, according to the space agency.

Stretching nearly halfway across the sun, the looping eruption of ionized helium “is definitely one of the largest” solar prominences ever witnessed, said Madhulika Guhathakurta, a STEREO program scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.

The following video was taken by NASA and shows the immense power of the sun:

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