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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Gigantic explosion on Sun occurs on surface, November 16, 2012



ANOTHER HUMONGOUS ERUPTION:

Another truly gigantic explosion happened on the sun yesterday. On Nov. 16th, magnetic fields snaking halfway across the sun's southern hemisphere erupted in tandem, producing a prominence so big, it doesn't fit inside this image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO):