Harry is a U.K.-based staff writer at Live Science. He studied Marine Biology at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus) and after graduating started his own blog site 'Marine Madness,' which he continues to run with other ocean enthusiasts.
A massive plume of plasma that erupted from the sun on Halloween briefly carved out an enormous"canyon of fire" on the solar surface that was twice as wide as the contiguous U.S. and more than seven times as long as Earth.
In the late hours of Oct. 31, a loop of magnetized plasma, known as a solar prominence, grew in the sun's southern hemisphere and became unstable, before breaking off and launching into space like a snapped elastic band, Spaceweather.com reported. This is not the first"canyon of fire" that has been spotted on the sun in recent years: In April 2022, a 124,000-mile-long canyon opened up on the sun; and in September the same year, an even larger canyon stretching a whopping 239,000 miles appeared after an epic solar eruption. Both of these canyons were around 12,400 miles deep, which is around 1,800 times deeper than the Mariana Trench.
—Mysterious waves of magnetism may explain why the sun's atmosphere is hotter than physicists thought possible
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