NASA Photo - An image of the sun, mixing 25 photographs taken between, April 16 2012 and April 15 2013, reflecting the activity of the sun.
Astronomy / Space The good old sun
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I would imagine it has something to do with the weaker density of the magnetic field away from the poles, which causes larger clusters of coronal loops.
EDIT: I think I was kind of right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_loop
With coffee and buns, every morning, for the occupants of the ISS.
Beautiful videos. Thank you very much
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Thats a great image of the Sun at 284 Å wave length Patrick, great image.
That wavelength is emitted by Fe XV (iron ionized fourteen times) at 2.2 million degrees K! Yikes! [So I guess the average sunblock won't be working then? lol] Here's a beautiful video of the sun by Spacerip of our life give there. http://youtu.be/tY2n2CHMXfI
Here is also a video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory [SDO], where that image came from. It's titled " Three Years of Sun in Three Minutes. " The satellite took two images of the sun every day for three years as it reached the solar maximum.
NASA = so very very cool.
Lastly, here's a thought; this is same thing being repeated buy [rough number] a sixtillion to a septillion suns around our universe ever second? All that movement, all that energy, amazing, truly amazing.
Edit: Here's a little of Alan Friedman's photographic work, beautiful stuff. I suggest you head over to his website and have a look through some of his sun shots, great images. Amazing what can be done with a small 90mm hydrogen alpha telescope!
http://www.avertedimagination.com/sun_1.htm
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^ Maybe it's just me but those pictures make the sun look furry.
Guessing here: flares are caused by magnetic field lines stretching and tearing. The sun is fluid so there would be more movement and stress of field lines at the equator due the sun's spin (differential between speed at pole and equator).
Guessing here: flares are caused by magnetic field lines stretching and tearing. The sun is fluid so there would be more movement and stress of field lines at the equator due the sun's spin (differential between speed at pole and equator).
^ Maybe it's just me but those pictures make the sun look furry.
Guessing here: flares are caused by magnetic field lines stretching and tearing. The sun is fluid so there would be more movement and stress of field lines at the equator due the sun's spin (differential between speed at pole and equator).
Yeah it is a bit out of my area, where is DrWookie when you need him?
Hmm. Fuzzy you say? Like an effect that could be procedurally generated? Like clouds for example?
better fit some really strong tints to my Cobra so I can sit close to those stars and watch Thats a great image of the Sun at 284 Å wave length Patrick, great image.
http://youtu.be/tY2n2CHMXfI
Here is also a video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory [SDO], where that image came from. It's titled " Three Years of Sun in Three Minutes. " The satellite took two images of the sun every day for three years as it reached the solar maximum.
NASA = so very very cool.
Lastly, here's a thought; this is same thing being repeated buy [rough number] a sixtillion to a septillion suns around our universe ever second? All that movement, all that energy, amazing, truly amazing.
Edit: Here's a little of Alan Friedman's photographic work, beautiful stuff. I suggest you head over to his website and have a look through some of his sun shots, great images. Amazing what can be done with a small 90mm hydrogen alpha telescope!
http://www.avertedimagination.com/sun_1.htm
Wonderful but also scary, all these images and video. Thank you