Breathtaking images of a violent solar flare and the beautiful aurora it created on Earth

Wow these pictures are breathtaking to say the very least. Nasa today released stunning video showing a 500,000 mile long 'solar whip' on the surface of the sun - and the beautiful aurora it created on earth. Captured by from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the images show in unprecedented detail a very long, whip-like solar filament extending over half a million miles in a long arc above the sun’s surface. This incredible phenomenon might give us insight into why solar eruptions disrupt electrical supply here on Earth.