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Will we ever be able to get this close to a star?
1 posted on 09/19/2016 5:06:01 AM PDT by ThomasMore
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2 posted on 09/19/2016 5:06:26 AM PDT by ThomasMore (We're edging closer and closer to a civil war! Blame the politicians!)
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Only if we go at night.


3 posted on 09/19/2016 5:08:36 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Will we ever be able to get this close to a star?

Shields at 100% Captain.

4 posted on 09/19/2016 5:11:09 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs......same thing.)
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Never seen anything quite like that before - not in that detail.


5 posted on 09/19/2016 5:11:31 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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I could never understand how the sun continues to produce energy after all these millions/billions of years without burning out.......


6 posted on 09/19/2016 5:15:03 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (If only Hillary had married OJ instead......)
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You can land on the dark side.


10 posted on 09/19/2016 5:45:30 AM PDT by fruser1
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It’s Oryx! I kicked his ass on the dreadnaught...


12 posted on 09/19/2016 6:03:32 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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Fake, I’m not even sure the sun is real ...


13 posted on 09/19/2016 6:06:03 AM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
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Bozo the Clown lives on the sun!


15 posted on 09/19/2016 6:29:42 AM PDT by PTBAA
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Maybe; the monolith aliens in 2001 managed it, and that was a red giant, no less, which would have a much more active corona. Humans in the Uplift series (Sundiver) manage it with a refrigeration laser and phlebotinum-based hull material.

I think the one thing that’s going to someday give us anti-gravity, FTL travel, and other “science fiction” technology like the ability to fly close to or even into stars, is our ability to imagine that such a thing is possible. Our eventual solution to those goals may end up looking nothing like the ones we imagine, but we’ll get there nonetheless.


16 posted on 09/19/2016 6:34:49 AM PDT by Little Pig
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Looks like a red fuzzy ball. Is there a movie of the surface moving around?


17 posted on 09/19/2016 6:48:16 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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Beautiful picture.


22 posted on 09/19/2016 9:42:22 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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What really puzzles ME about the sun is that it’s magnetic, and gas isn’t magnetic, metal is. Yet we’re told that the sun is compressed hydrogen. Could it be that it’s really made of molten metal and something like uranium???

What am I missing?


23 posted on 09/19/2016 11:35:58 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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