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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Sun Rotating
SPOD.NASA.gov ^ | 19 Aug, 2020 | Video Credit: SDO, NASA; Digital Composition: Kevin M. Gill

Posted on 08/19/2020 6:10:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: Larry Lucido

How long is that in Dog Days?..................

21 posted on 08/20/2020 5:20:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." ... That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: Larry Lucido; Diana in Wisconsin; metmom

How do you tell when the sun sets on the sun?...............


22 posted on 08/20/2020 5:21:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." ... That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: sanjuanbob; Diana in Wisconsin

Everybody’s gotta be someplace.


23 posted on 08/20/2020 5:24:32 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Red Badger; Diana in Wisconsin; metmom

The sun never sets on the solar empire.


24 posted on 08/20/2020 5:24:54 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

Centripetal forces acting on the gaseous nature of the Sun...........

25 posted on 08/20/2020 5:25:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." ... That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: minnesota_bound

Oops! Sorry! Back to the Algore Reeducation Camp for me! ;)


26 posted on 08/20/2020 5:25:34 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

27 posted on 08/20/2020 5:26:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." ... That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: dragnet2

Wow! Nice shot!


28 posted on 08/20/2020 5:27:23 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Red Badger

Another much needed perspective some days!


29 posted on 08/20/2020 5:29:06 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Larry Lucido

How long is a ‘day’ on the sun?

We don’t really know, it isn’t over yet..................maybe 8-10 billion earth years .........Then >BOOM<........


30 posted on 08/20/2020 5:33:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." ... That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: Red Badger

https://www.theepochtimes.com/nasa-reveals-breathtaking-photo-of-international-space-station-passing-in-front-of-the-sun_3392962.html


31 posted on 08/20/2020 5:39:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." ... That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: Red Badger

How many hydrogen atoms does it take to change a sun?

(Supposedly around 10 to the 57th power. Not sure how to write that in HTML).


32 posted on 08/20/2020 5:44:52 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

How many hydrogen atoms does it take to change a sun?

Just one......................but when that ‘one’ is added ... KABLOOIE!................


33 posted on 08/20/2020 5:46:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." ... That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Thanks Diana. The enormity of these objects and the distances involved never cease to amaze.


34 posted on 08/20/2020 12:03:13 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Note: this topic is from 08/19/2020. Thanks MtnClimber.



35 posted on 10/05/2020 8:20:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MtnClimber

Fake News. Its been cloudy and rainy all week.

;-)


36 posted on 10/05/2020 8:26:41 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

*GASP*


37 posted on 10/05/2020 8:27:35 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

and to think the God who created all this game to that one little speck to die a horrible death to rescue me!


38 posted on 10/05/2020 8:33:54 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Red Badger

We’ve moved to the Andromeda Galaxy? Remember one cannot fool APOD regulars. :)


39 posted on 10/05/2020 8:35:19 AM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

It’s a mirror image of our galaxy...........................


40 posted on 10/05/2020 8:38:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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