SOHO Captures Solar Eruption

Liora writes: "A Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite captures this awesome reminder of our own minuteness. There is an article mentioning it briefly from Lycos, but this is my favorite picture on the NASA site."

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Re:Earth next to the fireball, to scale

[WolfWithoutAClause]

Well, putting the earth that close to the Sun would do that. However, if earth stays where it is, and given that no government has a current plan to move it; then even a direct hit would not cause more than a few service disruptions; it's happened before, plenty of times.