This video of an M class solar flare condenses three hours of explosion into a dramatic 1-minute video.
The mesmerizing part is the graceful way the fountain of flowing plasma floats back to the Sun's surface. It doesn't just plop back down, rather, it follows the star's magnetic field lines.
Reaching a height of 100,000 km above the sun's surface in less than three hours, means the plasma traveled at about 21,000 miles per hour. I'd say that will get you places in a hurry. Awesome, and the ejection seemed small compared to the size of the sun. The forces involved have got to be unreal.
