ERUPTING FILAMENT: Today, with little warning, a magnetic filament rapidly erupted on the sun. Between 10:30 and 11:30 UT, observers in Europe watched tendrils of hot plasma rocket away from the sun's NW limb. Debris from the explosion is not expected to hit Earth.
this comes from space weather.com. what it appears to mean is the sun is erupting unexpectedly and giving no warning. the other day, they were saying how quite the sun is, how it had in their words, flat-lined.
this seems a blatant contradiction, how can the sun be quite when filaments are erupting like this? are they trying to play things down, or am I misreading these events? the sun seems to be erratic, unpredictable, and just when the all clear is sounded something else erupts. what can be causing it I ask you??
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