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The third shot was taken with a very high end solar telescope at an observatory I believe in Hawaii .... the black out area is the sun. The telescope is designed to study the sun's corona and to look at flares and CMEs and so forth ... note the amazingly large object in the upper left corner of the Sun .... Maybe that's just a nice round solar flare sticking out there