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To: BenLurkin
Wow. Just... wow. Hard to conceive of how freakin' big that is.

Thanks for posting!

4 posted on 04/30/2015 12:00:52 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: dayglored
For scale, at 8,000 miles in diameter, you can place 110 planet earths side-by-side across the diameter of the nearly 1 million mile wide Sun (the white ring in the graphic).

SOHO LASCO C2 (top) and SDO AIA 304 (bottom) image of a solar filament detaching on April 28-29, 2015

12 posted on 04/30/2015 12:21:38 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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