[Credit: SST, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]
I see comet Elenin!
It’s...full of stars!
serious side however, bitchen pic; it's amazing that ball of energy holds together for so long.
On the really big pic site, it looks like intertwining woven fiber strands, rising up from blackness.
Nice one. Looks like the Sun is being captured in amber.
An an interesting fact is that the photons that were used to make this image started in the fusion of hydrogen nuclei a very, very long time ago. No one knows how long, but estimates run from 17,000 years ago to the tens of millions. They aren’t the original photons, but are the product of an enormous number of collisions starting in the solar core.
Simply AWESOME!!!!!!! Thanks
What is the scale of the sunspot in the photo? I assume 10K miles plus.
I have seen sunspots with my naked eye, in Los Angeles of all places. On the beach, sunny morning and just the perfect amount of fog. Of course having 20/15 vision helps.
Just wow!
That’s what he’ll must look like.
Nothing to see here, move on. The rumors this thing has something to do with Earth's climate are wrong!