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☀️ A giant solar prominence has just broken away from the Sun — one of the largest this year, according to Russia’s Spac…
☀️ A giant solar prominence has just broken away from the Sun — one of the largest this year, according to Russia’s Space Research Institute (IKI RAS).
This time, we got lucky. Scientists say that if it had happened a day later, Earth would have been grazed by the edge of the blast — and if two days later, we’d have taken a direct hit.
Fortunately, the plasma cloud is heading safely into deep space, missing all planets.
Still, the spectacle was breathtaking — a fiery arch of superheated plasma tens of thousands of kilometers high, briefly suspended above the solar surface before being hurled away into the void.
