Magnetic avalanche in action (VIDEO)

European Space Agency

Caption

Solar Orbiter’s most detailed view yet of a large solar flare, with filaments, raining plasma blobs, magnetic reconnection events and X-ray emission labelled

Credit

ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team

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