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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. 4 - Picked by 23.1% of voters


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Semetimes the entire Sun seems angry. This EIT image shows emission from ionized iron at about 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit (1 million degrees C), revealing diffuse corona -- the solar atmosphere -- and magnetic loops on July 1, 1999. Light-colored areas are active regions where pent-up magnetic energy could burst out at any moment.

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