The boiling, erupting Sun (MUST READ)

The boiling, erupting Sun (MUST READ)#222719

By What's Burning? - 31 Oct 10, 13:30

- 31 Oct 10, 13:30#222719

If you're a photography fan or interested in science or just ever looked through a telescope with curiosity, you must read this!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... pting-sun/

Holy solar retinopathy! That’s the Sun?

Yup. But this is not a space-based image from some bazillion dollar observatory! This phenomenal picture was taken by astrophotographer Alan Friedman with this relatively small (but very, very nice) ’scope. He shot it on October 20th, and it shows our nearest star in the light of hydrogen, specifically what astronomers call Hα (H-alpha). I’ll get to that in a sec…

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Re: The boiling, erupting Sun (MUST READ)#222722

By texasmr2 - 31 Oct 10, 13:45

- 31 Oct 10, 13:45#222722

WOOOOOOW!!! Very very very cool pic.

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Re: The boiling, erupting Sun (MUST READ)#222748

By scotty - 31 Oct 10, 14:23

- 31 Oct 10, 14:23#222748

That is amazing!

See that little bright spot on the plume on the left, just above the Sun’s edge? That spot is the same size as the Earth.

Mindblowing stuff.

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Re: The boiling, erupting Sun (MUST READ)#222752

By madbrad - 31 Oct 10, 15:04

- 31 Oct 10, 15:04#222752

Now I get your username.

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Re: The boiling, erupting Sun (MUST READ)#222754

By texasmr2 - 31 Oct 10, 15:06

- 31 Oct 10, 15:06#222754

Now I get your username.

I just realized that aswell!

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Re: The boiling, erupting Sun (MUST READ)#222768

By MattMK45 - 31 Oct 10, 16:26

- 31 Oct 10, 16:26#222768

I guaruntee 99.9% of people would say it was CGI. Absolutley stunning!

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Re: The boiling, erupting Sun (MUST READ)#222799

By SennaVille - 31 Oct 10, 22:01

- 31 Oct 10, 22:01#222799

I like this quote:

"See that little bright spot on the plume on the left, just above the Sun’s edge? That spot is the same size as the Earth".

Astronomy based facts like that never cease to :yikes:

me!

eta: this little tid-bit http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/20 ... -emp_N.htm

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