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Old 06-08-2011, 11:45 AM   #4
BigV
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Wow, that's HUGE!
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NASA Sees the Sun Having a Solar Blast

ScienceDaily (June 7, 2011) — The Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare, an S1-class (minor) radiation storm and a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) on June 7, 2011 from sunspot complex 1226-1227. The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back down looking as if it covered an area of almost half the solar surface.
FIFY

Watch the timecode in the top video. It takes *TWO HOURS* to go *UP*. before it starts to rain downward again.
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