This is the adventure of plasma on the surface of the sun as it gets raised up by the Sun's magnetic fields.  The coronal loops and solar prominences are always shifting, and, occasionally, explode as a solar flare spraying out ionized gas and plasma particles.  And, directly in the particles' path... a small blue planet.  This is not the end of the story...

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