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Enormous Sunspot AR 1476
May 9, 2012 | MSNBC.com

A massive sunspot cluster over 60,000 miles across has been identified on the sun’s surface. Sunspots sometimes erupt into solar flares that emit high-energy radiation.


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The Real Price of Oil and Natural Gas
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