APOD: Sun with Solar Flare (2013 Apr 13)

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Re: APOD: Sun with Solar Flare (2013 Apr 13)

Post by MargaritaMc » Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:39 am

rstevenson wrote:Is this the part you mean? Doesn't look very planetary to me. I think it's just a blob of the Sun's atmosphere trying to escape. It probably didn't succeed.
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Rob
Yes, that's it! Now I see it close up it looks like atmosphere blob. Thanks for that. I can't get that amount of detail on my current computer.

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