Sun snot
Someone should teach the Sun some manners. When it sneezed on June 7, the sun blew an enormous glob of dark plasma into space — and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught it on tape. The 20,000-degree Celsius eruption — actually rather chilly by solar standards — can be seen raining back onto the sun’s surface in blobs and streamers.
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