The United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released four films of a filament burst arising from the sun. According to reports, to assemble the movies, scientists used observations that were captured by the space agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory over a six-hour span on April 21. The observations were captured in extreme ultraviolet light wavelengths.

As per the reports, a number of amateur astronomers also observed the event due to the plume's immense maximum size. The burning plume of plasma was erupted from the sun's surface and twisted into complex loops before the material collapsed back into the sun. Only some of the matter of the plume was released into the space.

NASA said, "While some of the material broke away into space, much of it fell back into the sun. The images were taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light".

As per reports by Discovery, there was another major event on the surface of the sun in late April. It was because a filament erupted on April 28 and 29. In that case, a huge amount of material was released into the space in a coronal mass ejection.

The event was captured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium. The images captured by the observatory have been used to make a movie of the event. The observatory also used the occulting disk on its Lasco C2 camera to cover much of the radiance of the sun. It also captured pictures of the seemingly delicate strands of ejected material.

As per the reports, filaments like these derive in the photosphere and blast outwards into the hotter outer atmosphere of the sun, which is the corona. Astronomers from the European Space Agency (ESA) also saw the event by using the Solar Dynamics Observatory, which was launched in 2010.