An amateur astrophotogropher pointed his telescope toward the sun and observed a plume shooting out from the fiery surface at 100,000 miles per hour as it grew to more than one million miles long., who lives in , told DailyMail.com that he spent six hours taking more than a million pictures that he ‘stitched’ together for the final image - but because the plume was so massive, he could only capture half of it in the photo.The ejection of energetic and highly magnetized, superheated gas, or coronal mass ejection (CME), was released from what McCarthy said was the largest solar prominence he has ever witnessed - the bright feature extending outward from the surface was about 500,000 miles wide.
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