Sunday, 22 November 2015 12:36 UTC
A filament eruption took place during the past couple of hours.
A large filament that was located on the southeastern quadrant of the Sun has ripped loose and likely launched a coronal mass ejection. We need to wait for coronagraph imagery to see if there is an earth-directed component. Image from NASA SDO.
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