The article Dennis mentions one revealing paragraph.
: -
"The eruption is mostly burning hydrogen gas and solar particles which
     have been flung into space at around 100,000F, eight times the
     temperature at the core of the Earth, which is up to 13,000F - and hot
     enough to vapourise our planet should the Earth cross its path."



 Now I can understand Americans retaining the Fahrenheit temperature scale
for
 weather and blood and cooking, but to use it in cosmology is just plain
daft.
 100 000F is as incomprehensible (and as meaningless) as 55 000C. Isn't it?




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