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Short video with music. The image is a composite of SDO AIA 171 and 304, with the two wavelengths blended in the area of the canyon.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here. || A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular fashion. The 200,000 mile long filament ripped through the sun s magnetic field lines, seen in the movie as an arcade of loops across the area of the eruption. The browner images at the beginning of the movie show material at temperatures of 1,800,000° F, and it is here where the canyon of fire imagery is most obvious. By comparing this with the other colors, one sees that the two swirling ribbons moving farther away from each other are, in fact, the footprints of the giant magnetic field loops, which are growing and expanding as the filament pulls them upward. || SDO AIA 193 frames and 4k ProRes. || SDO AIA 171 frames and 4k ProRes || SDO AIA 304 Frames and 4k ProRes