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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Dark Ball in Inverted Starfield
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 6 Nov, 2022 | Image Credit: Jim Lafferty

Posted on 11/06/2022 1:29:47 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: Does this strange dark ball look somehow familiar? If so, that might be because it is our Sun. In the featured image from 2012, a detailed solar view was captured originally in a very specific color of red light, then rendered in black and white, and then color inverted. Once complete, the resulting image was added to a starfield, then also color inverted. Visible in the image of the Sun are long light filaments, dark active regions, prominences peeking around the edge, and a moving carpet of hot gas. The surface of our Sun can be a busy place, in particular during Solar Maximum, the time when its surface magnetic field is wound up the most. Besides an active Sun being so picturesque, the plasma expelled can also become picturesque when it impacts the Earth's magnetosphere and creates auroras.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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1 posted on 11/06/2022 1:29:47 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 11/06/2022 1:30:05 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; America_Right; AZ .44 MAG; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

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3 posted on 11/06/2022 1:30:45 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To the photo deniers...what can I say. This is what NASA posted today. Maybe it is part of their muslim outreach directive.


4 posted on 11/06/2022 1:32:25 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Looks like covid without the spikes!!


5 posted on 11/06/2022 1:48:49 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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It’s the Wakandan sun!


6 posted on 11/06/2022 1:49:17 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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It is like the BLM sun.


7 posted on 11/06/2022 1:50:41 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Wakanda forever! When I grow up I want to live in Wakanda!


8 posted on 11/06/2022 1:55:17 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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A Nerf Ball. After some time on the carpet.


9 posted on 11/06/2022 2:04:54 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your rotection)
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👍


10 posted on 11/06/2022 6:29:51 PM PST by Sioux-san
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SunHuman Egg cell

11 posted on 11/07/2022 7:47:15 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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