This photo of the Sun is the closest ever taken.....Close-up reveals a surface dancing with ‘campfires’.

Nature ^ | 16 July 2020 | Elizabeth Gibney

[Red Badger]

Credit: ESA

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This image — the closest ever taken of the Sun — shows the corona teeming with thousands of miniature solar flares, which scientists have dubbed campfires. The pictures are the first released from the Solar Orbiter mission, led by the European Space Agency.

“When the first images came in, my first thought was this is not possible, it can’t be that good,” David Berghmans, principal investigator for the orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument, told a press briefing on 16 July. “It was much better than we dared to hope for.”

“The Sun might look quiet at the first glance, but when we look in detail, we can see those miniature flares everywhere we look,” said Berghmans, a solar physicist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, in a statement.

The fires are just millionths or billionths of the size of the solar flares visible from Earth, which are energetic eruptions thought to be caused by interactions in the Sun’s magnetic fields. The mission team has yet to work out whether the two phenomena are driven by the same process, but the researchers speculate that the combined effect of the many campfires could contribute to the searing heat of the corona, the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The corona is hundreds of times hotter than the Sun’s surface, but the reason is a long-standing mystery.

[Defiant]

I dunno, but might as well go for a walk and find out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQj—Kjn0z8

[Delta 21]

We need to outlaw campfires. Its overheating our planet and we are almost out of marshmallows!

[Red Badger]

Then how will we make S’Mores?........................

[wally_bert]

Quite alright.

[Delta 21]

Use your eclipse glasses from a few years ago.

[ResponseAbility]

Very well played!

[ResponseAbility]

***We need to outlaw campfires. Its overheating our planet and we are almost out of marshmallows!***

Is it OK if we light cow farts to make our smores?

[TimSkalaBim]

“Campfires” is a rotten name for this plasmic phenomenon. Yes, yes, the scientists who dubbed this are trying to be cute and dumb science down for the mobs but it’s misleading and confuses the nature of the event.

[mowowie]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064519/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[al baby]

Looks like the filling inside a mcdonalds apple pie

[fieldmarshaldj]

[minnesota_bound]

Here is the real photo.

[wally_bert]

Despite the problems, I still like the movie and score.

[Songcraft]

"Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam"
(toe-tapping version on youtube)

[tinyowl]

Stupid times call for stupid comments :-)

[caww]

The closest photos ever taken of the sun....their release on Thursday,... these swirly snapshots are newly available to the public....these photographs reveal an unprecedented level of detail.

[caww]

[SunkenCiv]

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[BenLurkin]

You have to look, if you want to see the Mighty Host in the sun.

[Tunehead54]

How many days does it take to go around the earth? I didn’t see that in your stats. ;-)