# @discovery on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BQOG730gfjX
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12161529-discovery-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/413ca5a5c8.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-02-07T18:28:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Discovery (@Discovery) — https://gondola.cc/Discovery

## Caption

This image taken on Oct. 19, 2013, shows a filament on the sun – a giant ribbon of relatively cool solar material threading through the sun's atmosphere, the corona. The individual threads that make up the filament are clearly discernible in this photo. .
This image was captured by the Solar Optical Telescope onboard JAXA/NASA’s Hinode solar observatory. Credits: 
JAXA/NASA/Hinode .
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Learn more about the sun on #DarkSideOfTheSun this Saturday at 9p, part of sciencechannel weekend.
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#astronomy #science #sun #spaceimages #solar #solarflare #universe #NASA

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solar, astronomy, sun, solarflare, science, nasa, universe, darksideofthesun, spaceimages

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