Dr. Seuss would have loved today's tall tale on the sun. It towers more than 200,000 miles above the solar surface. More recent solar images can be seen here.

This image was featured on the front page of Spaceweather.com on July 29, 2010.

 

July 27, 2010/ captured with Little Big Man, PGR Scorpion camera

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