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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Pixels in the Sun
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 26 Jun, 2021 | Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night)

Posted on 06/26/2021 4:38:32 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: These two panels, composed of video frames made with a safe solar telescope and hydrogen alpha filter, show remarkably sharp details on the solar disk and giant prominences along the Sun's edge on June 6 (top) and June 18. Taken from Beijing, China, they also show a transit of the International Space Station and China's new Tiangong Space Station in silhouette against the bright Sun. The International Space Station is near center in the bottom panel, crossing the solar disk left of bright active region AR2833 and below a large looping solar filament. China's space station is below solar active region AR2827 and right of center in the top panel, seen as a smaller, combined "+" and "-" shape. The pictures of the transiting orbital outposts were taken with the same equipment and at the same pixel scale, with the International Space Station some 492 kilometers away. China's space station was over 400 kilometers from the camera.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.

1 posted on 06/26/2021 4:38:32 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 06/26/2021 4:38:47 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber; 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; America_Right; Art in Idaho; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

🪐 🌟 🌌


3 posted on 06/26/2021 4:39:51 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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It’s a giant orange being chased by a juicer.


4 posted on 06/26/2021 4:44:13 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancerā€)
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To: MtnClimber

Do we know anything about the Alien ships ?

they both are insanely huge.


5 posted on 06/26/2021 4:44:36 PM PDT by algore
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Those are some damn high resolution pictures of the sun.

I mean, there's high resolution, and then there's damn high resolution.

6 posted on 06/26/2021 4:46:06 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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That’s a lot of Brownian motion ... let’s hook it up to a finite improbability generator!


7 posted on 06/26/2021 4:52:53 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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“.. let’s hook it up to a finite improbability generator!”

well, ok, just as long as you have an infinite number of them.

P.S.
there are exactly as many numbers between 0 and 1 as there are between 0 and 2, 0 and a million, or even in the entire set of real numbers. It seems impossible that a set could be the ā€œsame sizeā€ as a set that contains itself in addition to other stuff.

and some people disagree


8 posted on 06/26/2021 5:03:25 PM PDT by algore
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9 posted on 06/26/2021 5:04:11 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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10 posted on 06/26/2021 5:06:14 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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I mean, there's high resolution, and then there's damn high resolution.

Not enough resolution to see where they left the flag.

11 posted on 06/26/2021 5:31:38 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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"Yes, kids, you're right. No astronaut has ever landed on the Sun.
Democrat Congresswoman Lee doesn't know what she's talking about."


On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]

Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100409095818/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee

12 posted on 06/26/2021 5:34:21 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

If additional proof was needed to prove some descended from monkeys. The monkeys deny it and I can see why.


13 posted on 06/26/2021 5:45:45 PM PDT by sport
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The latest APOD

Explanation: What drives auroras on Saturn? To help find out, scientists have sorted through hundreds of infrared images of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft for other purposes, trying to find enough aurora images to correlate changes and make movies. Once made, some movies clearly show that Saturnian auroras can change not only with the angle of the Sun, but also as the planet rotates. Furthermore, some auroral changes appear related to waves in Saturn's magnetosphere likely caused by Saturn's moons. Pictured here, a false-colored image taken in 2007 shows Saturn in three bands of infrared light. The rings reflect relatively blue sunlight, while the planet itself glows in comparatively low energy red. A band of southern aurora in visible in green. In has recently been found that auroras heat Saturn's upper atmosphere. Understanding Saturn's auroras is a path toward a better understanding of Earth's auroras.

14 posted on 06/26/2021 11:51:16 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left Is not screaming , you are doing it wrong..)
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There is dumb and there is Sheila Jackson Lee dumb!
She is a waste of space and oxygen...


15 posted on 07/01/2021 5:14:02 PM PDT by BatGuano ("Ya don't think that I'd go into combat with change in my pocket, do Ya?)
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