A
solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on Dec. 31, 2012,
twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the flow of plasma, but
without sufficient force to overcome the sun’s gravity much of the
plasma fell back into the sun. Relative size of Earth to the Sun's eruption
The length of the eruption
extends about 160,000 miles out from the Sun. With Earth about 7,900
miles in diameter, this relatively minor eruption is about 20 times the
diameter of our planet.
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