Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO
Entered By: grantb on April 21, 2010
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What, you think that Christmas cracker in Iceland was something? This was last week’s real eruption:
This prominence is 500,000 miles long. That’s a stream of plasma 62 and a half times longer than the Earth’s diameter. Volcano, shmolcano.
Captured by NASA’s STEREO system (the two spacecraft of the Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory).
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