This amazing image captures the sun at its most beautiful... and violent.
It shows a large solar flare - or prominence - blowing out a dazzling, waving mass of erupting plasma that swirled and twisted for 90 minutes.
Nasa scientists at the space agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) took the image on February 24 using extreme ultraviolet light.
The world got a taster of the sun's explosive power last month when the strongest solar eruption in five years sent a torrent of charged plasma hurtling towards the world at 580 miles per second.
The storm created spectacular aurorae and disrupted radio communications.
The X-class flare was one of three solar flares emitted in a week week.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1362159/The-large-solar-flare-swirled-twisted-90-minutes.html#ixzz1Fa4gEeYE
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