SDO:AIA Full-Disk View of Launching Filament

Full disk view of a filament launch in the SDO AIA 304 band. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SVS/SDO To read more about this animation go to: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/first-light.html" rel="nofollow">www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/first-light.html</a> <b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html" rel="nofollow">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.