A still frame from a video taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft on 29 April 2014, shows a small, hovering mass of twisted strands of plasma as it shifted back and forth before erupting into space


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A still frame from a video taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft on 29 April 2014, shows a small, hovering mass of twisted strands of plasma as it shifted back and forth before erupting into space.

The plasma appears darker only because it has a lower temperature than the surrounding material when viewed in extreme ultraviolet light.

Competing magnetic forces pulls and stretches the suspended plasma until something triggers the breakaway.

This kind of activity happens fairly commonly on the Sun.

Attribution: NASA

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