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June 8, 2011 12:05 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/f0h21L2k7PA/Massive-Explosion-On-the-Sun
Massive Explosion On the Sun
Endoflow2010 sends word of an enormous eruption that occurred on the Sun this morning. Phil Plait describes it thus:"What you’re seeing here is a solar flare (an enormous explosion of pent-up magnetic energy) coupled with a prominence (a physical eruption of gas from the surface). This event blasted something like a billion tons of material away from the Sun. Note the size of it, too: while it started from a small region on the Sun’s surface, it quickly expanded into a plume easily as big as the Sun itself! I’d estimate its size at well over a million kilometers across."The attached video is well worth watching. 
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