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Space.com video shows sun erupt with New Year's Eve fireworks

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Screen grab of Space.com
Photographer: Solar Dynamics Observatory
Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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Posted: 01/02/2013

Fireworks could be seen all across the world on New  Year’s Eve, and even outside of this world.

PHOTOS | New Year's around the word: http://bit.ly/10IIgel

Two blasts on the eastern edge of the sun provided quite the show on Dec. 31, 2012.

The below video comes via Space.com and was captured at the Solar Dynamics Observatory.
 

Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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