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How large are sunspots?

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I'm studying the milky way in class right now and according to my science book you can fit 2 Jupiter's and 3 earths inside of a solar prominence and that flares can travel more than 600 km\s

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That is similar to asking how large is large. They vary greatly in size. Some are thousands and thousands of miles tall and have made far deeper impact in our ozone layer then anything man has done. (i.e. 1859 solar flares)

They are the most powerful eruptions we know of according to NASA.

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A solar flare can release up to up to 6 × 10 to the 25 joules of energy (160,000,000,000 megatons of TNT equivalent) - and can reach a temperature Inside the flare of 10 or 20 million degrees Kelvin.

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A solar flare can release as much as 6 × 1025 joules of energy.

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The sun's flares are about 1,000,000 degrees farinheight. Thet may be hotter.

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Sunspots can be as large as 80,000 km (50,000 miles) in diameter.

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3.6 million to 24 million degrees F

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