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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
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No. 5
- Picked by 21.3% of voters
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The "Bastille Day" flare
on July 14, 2000 came amid the peak of activity in the current 11-year solar
cycle, and it generated a space storm that disrupted satellite and surface communications
at Earth. This EIT image of the flare -- the white eruption just above the center
of the Sun -- shows emission from ionized iron at about 2.7 million degrees
Fahrenheit (1.5 million degrees C).
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