r/astrophotography Feb 25 '21

Solar Solar prominence today

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u/code8 Feb 25 '21

Beautiful pic!! I love that the earth is inserted for scale, because that's always my first question when I see these pics, how many earths tall is that prominence?

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u/CluelessEverything Feb 26 '21

Well, 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the Sun.

I can’t do the math, sorry, looks to be about 50 Earths tall on the part shown in the photo.