Solar Magnetic Filament Erupts - Zoom 12.06.10

As Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer) points out: on this scale, the earth would be roughly 5 pixels across.. This, in other words, is one badass eruption..

Found on Bad Astronomy
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/06/a-huge-looping-prominence-on-the-sun/
and
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/08/arc-of-dissent/

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