Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA
Posted on 07/16/2016 6:31:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The sun has been making some anxious faces lately — but you'd be worried, too, if a huge hole had just opened up on your head.
The sun's apparent nervousness crops up in photos captured over the past few days by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO); you can see the gorgeous images compiled into a video here.
The sun's "eyes" are actually active regions, which serve as launch pads for solar flares and the eruptions of superheated solar plasma known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). And the anxious, crinkly mouth is a coronal hole, a relatively cool and dark region where the sun's magnetic field lies open to interplanetary space.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Doesn’t look nervous to me, looks like it’s about to throw up. Hope it’s facing away from us when it does.
so what the Sun has Poles and an equator
Agreed. It looks queasy.
Yep, good old sun. Up in the morning. Down in the evening. Reliable.
I see seven angels with bowls of Gods wrath.
You mean...’there is a mighty host in the sun’?
If you were a star and had a planet like earth in the year 2016 revolving around you, you might feel like puking, too.
"Duuude...wait, what?"
Nothing to worry about. The dark spots are just where it is raining.
So far so good but tomarrow? Who knows.
Oh no it’s all because of globull warming. We’re all goin to die. Don’t forget to send your money to Fat Albert Gore.
Old school!
The Sun just found out that Hillary has a lock on the Democrat Party presidential candidacy.
That’s enough to make any one pass gas by the millions of tons.
That looks like my ulcer. How did NASA get a picture of my intestine? Or maybe it was the NSA. Only a letter’s difference between them.
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the since.” - BillyBob Shakespeare
Lol! “Sun”, not “since”.
Even autocorrect hates Shakespeare.
Yep. That’s the queasy look stars get just before they blow ... at least it will be quick.
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