An astrophotographer has captured a hauntingly beautiful image of a massive plume of plasma shooting out of the sun.
The fiery filament, known as a coronal mass ejection , extended into space to a distance of more than 1 million miles from the solar surface, according to the photographer.
The ethereal ejection was"the largest CME I've ever witnessed," McCarthy wrote on Reddit. The plasma was initially contained in a large loop connected to the sun's surface, known as a prominence, and then broke off and streamed into space at around 100,000 mph , McCarthy added. The photo is a false-color composite time-lapse image that stacks hundreds of thousands of images captured over a six-hour period, McCarthy wrote.
However, as the rest of the image was not filtered with orange, the sun retains an eerie white halo that stands out against the dark backdrop of space. "We'll see more of these as we head further into solar maximum," McCarthy wrote. The plasma plumes are also likely to get"progressively larger," he added.—'Cannibal' coronal mass ejection will hit Earth at nearly 2 million mph, scientists sayThe photographer warned people against trying to observe the sun without the proper equipment.
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