Enormous Sun Ring

A Gigantic Ring has been developing on the sun , What is this Ring?

Update 18 Oct 2010 from Spaceweather:
MEGA SOLAR FILAMENT: An awesome, monstrous, jaw-dropping, 400,000 km long filament of magnetism is stretched across the sun's southern hemisphere. If it collapses or erupts, as filaments often do, the result could be an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection. Meanwhile it is a fine target for backyard solar telescopes.
Magnetic instabilities in the filament caused an eruption today around 1600 UT. The filament was not destroyed

Sunspot 1112, located in the southeast quadrant, has been the source of a giant filament that is currently stretching 400,000 km across the surface of the Sun.

there appears to be development of a enormous circular ring which looks to be linking with the huge magnetic filament of sunspot 1112


it is now currently directly facing the Earth. If sunspot 1112 does erupt, could the entire filament explode into a massive CME?

This particular phenomenon will be all over in a few days as it rotates around the Sun, but it serves to remind us that there are more and more events happening on the Sun as we transit into the next solar cycle maximum (peaking ~ 2012 into 2013).

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SpaceWeather.com reports:

"A vast filament of magnetism is cutting across the Sun's southern hemisphere today. A bright 'hot spot' just north of the filament's midpoint is UV radiation from sunspot 1112"

"SOLAR FLARES: Fast-growing sunspot 1112 is crackling with solar flares. SDO movies show the three strongest of the past 24 hours"

SpaceWeather

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