article_snippet.sent: A solar flare accompanies the twisting flux rope in the footage, which moves around a common axis before bursting from the sun.
article_snippet.sent: the twisting flux rope in the footage, which moves around a common axis before bursting from the sun are essentially twisted bundles of magnetic field that extend out of and back into the surface across hundreds of kilometres.
article_snippet.sent: As common structures in the solar corona, the twisting flux rope in the footage, which moves around a common axis before bursting from the sun are thought to be the main cause of several types of solar weather - including solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
article_snippet.sent: The formation of a flux rope can take weeks, but the  moment when it is flung into the atmosphere can take just a matter of hours.
article_snippet.sent: In the video, twisting groups of magnetic fields writhe around a central axis, and the rope ultimately causes a bright flash - a solar flare - to form, shown here .
article_snippet.sent: Two flare ribbons also appear at the point where the rope joins the solar atmosphere.
article_snippet.sent: Solar flux ropes are common structures in the solar corona, and Solar flux ropes are thought to be the main cause of several types of solar weather – including solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), pictured .
highlights_snippet.sent: And a solar flux 'rope' ultimately causes a bright flash - a solar flare - to form .