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The Winners! Top 10 Sun Images from SOHO
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
25 November 2003

No. 8 - Picked by 17.3% of voters


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A rare pair of large eruptive prominences were captured at one moment by SOHO's EIT on March 18, 2003. Each extends outward from the Sun a distance equal to about 25 times the diameter of Earth. The image shows emission from ionized helium at about 108,000 degrees Fahrenheit (60,000 degrees C).

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