"Without warning, two beads of searing white light, bright as forked lightning but rounded rather than jagged and persistent instead of fleeting, appeared over the monstrous sunspot group. Momentarily taken by surprise, Carrington assumed that a ray of sunlight had found its way through the shadow-screen attached to the telescope. He reached out and jiggled the instrument, expecting the errant ray to zip wildly across the image. Instead, it stayed doggedly fixed in its position on the sunspot group. Whatever it was, it was not some stray reflection; it was coming from the Sun itself. As he stared, dumfounded, the two spots of light intensified and became kidney shaped."
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