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ewhite · 02-23-2010, 04:33 PM

I personally hate wikipedia sources but this is pretty interesting:

"the largest observed by SOHO was seen in 1997 and was some 350,000 km (216,000 miles) long [1] - some 28 times the diameter of the Earth. The mass contained within a prominence is typically of the order of 100 billion tonnes of material."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_filament

This spectacle is supposedly over 1,000,000 km long which would make it the largest observed since the SOHO mission started. WOW!

-E

02-23-2010, 04:33 PM	#7
ewhite Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Central, Pa. Posts: 60	Re: One Million kilometer filament on the Sun I personally hate wikipedia sources but this is pretty interesting: "the largest observed by SOHO was seen in 1997 and was some 350,000 km (216,000 miles) long [1] - some 28 times the diameter of the Earth. The mass contained within a prominence is typically of the order of 100 billion tonnes of material." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_filament This spectacle is supposedly over 1,000,000 km long which would make it the largest observed since the SOHO mission started. WOW! -E