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Old Aug 27, 2012, 06:52 PM   #10
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That CME is huge. It starts off a good fraction of the size of the sun and then grows much larger than the sun. Awesome.

And the sun is 800,000 miles across. Now stick that in yer pipe and smoke it!
Yup they said the inner solar corona is 5.25 million miles away from the Sun.
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