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Having a Blast on the Sun!

huge solar flare extending millions of miles into space was photographed by the. According to ESA, the photo represents the largest solar flare ever observed in a single image together with the full disc of the sun. A flare consists of a dense concentration of solar plasma that is released into space by the breakdown of a “solar prominence,” which ESA describes as a large structure “made of tangled magnetic field lines that keep dense concentrations of solar plasma suspended above the Sun’s surface and often take the form of arching loops.”