Dark Sun Sizzling

[FLO]

Is this our Sun? Yes. Even on a normal day, our Sun is sizzling ball of seething hot gas. Unpredictably, regions of strong and tangled magnetic fields arise, causing sunspots and bright active regions. The Sun's surface bubbles as hot hydrogen gas streams along looping magnetic fields. These active regions channel gas along magnetic loops, usually falling back but sometimes escaping into the solar corona or out into space as the solar wind. Pictured above is our Sun in three colours of ultraviolet light. Since only active regions emit significant amounts of energetic ultraviolet light, most of the Sun appears dark. The colourful portions glow spectacularly, pinpointing the Sun's hottest and most violent regions. Although the Sun is constantly changing, the rate of visible light it emits has been relatively stable over the past five billion years, allowing life to emerge on Earth.

Source: APOD

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[OXO]

What an Amazing image :shock: wow.

James

[daz]

Another cracking camera-phone shot Steve :D

[The Warthog]

Magnetic fields? Iron! Told ya!

Besides, I can see Jesus (lower middle0 leading his army of angels into battle against Satan (uuper left) in the swirling electrical storms on the solid iron surface. Must mean the end is near! Or England's going to win the next World Cup, and Hell will freeze over.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

You have the best painkillers in Canada WH. You don't even get close to hallucinating with UK standard ones.

Remind me if I ever visit Canada to tell the Doc. that I have a sore toe.

Captain Chaos

[Astroman]

:D

[The Warthog]

You have the best painkillers in Canada WH. You don't even get close to hallucinating with UK standard ones.

Remind me if I ever visit Canada to tell the Doc. that I have a sore toe.

Captain Chaos

No, no! You should see what they give you for an eye injury! I gotta find that sharp stick and get poked again.