Amazing video of massive solar flare erupting from surface of Sun

Amazing video of massive solar flare erupting from surface of Sun NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory filmed images of a large solar flare on February 24 2011. The (M3.6 rating) event is not the strongest solar flare ever recorded but was still big enough to kick up a huge tendril of plasma, known as a solar prominence. The entire eruption lasted for about 90 minutes.