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US photographer captures incredible snap of gas explosion on the sun's surface

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An amateur photographer from Sacramento, California captured an incredible solar flare erupting from the surface of the sun that was so big Earth would fit inside the loop twice.

Andrew McCarthy, 35, captured the solar prominence - a huge volume of solar mass rising from the star - on July 9.

The massive gaseous explosion is caught in a magnetic field creating the loop that is so big you could fit our planet inside it twice.

Andrew took the amazing shot using a Coronado ST 70/400 SolarMax III telescope connected to an astrophotography camera.

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