by A series of gigantic yet eerily faint plasma loops temporarily rose above our home star's surface after a powerful solar flare exploded from the sun on Monday, stunning new photos show.
These loops linger like ghostly echoes of the departed solar storm, but scientists still don't know exactly how the ethereal remnants take shape.
On Monday (Jan. 29), a powerful 6.8 magnitude M-class solar flare — the second highest class of solar flares behind X-class flares — erupted from sunspot AR3559 as it began to disappear behind the sun's western limb.
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These loops linger like ghostly echoes of the departed solar storm, but scientists still don't know exactly how the ethereal remnants take shape.
On Monday (Jan. 29), a powerful 6.8 magnitude M-class solar flare — the second highest class of solar flares behind X-class flares — erupted from sunspot AR3559 as it began to disappear behind the sun's western limb.
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