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1/2 gm. A few people have asked about Solar Fury; and what the 'flame' actually is. Its an arc of plasma called a solar prominence (sometimes referred to as a filament). They are large plasma and magnetic field structures extending outward from the sun that generally loops back to the sun.
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2/2 If plasma is ejected from the sun from a coronal mass ejections (CMEs) it is then considered a solar flare. These prominences are large; many times the diameter of the earth extending in some cases several hundred thousand km above the sun. For comparison, the diameter of the earth is about 12,750 km.
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