Planet Earth: An Illustrated History

Planet Earth: An Illustrated History stunning new photography book captures the natural miracles of the world we live in
NASA

The Sun
A NASA camera captures the eruption of a giant solar prominence — a burst of the ionized gases, or plasma, that make up the surface of the sun. Some solar flares are hundreds of thousands of miles long, so vast they could straddle the distance between the Earth and the moon.

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