Closeupest footage of the sun captured yet. Filmed from a telescope in Hawaii.
(6 votes)
Sun Closeup
Closeupest footage of the sun captured yet. Filmed from a telescope in Hawaii.
Comments
(Old Spike)
Yes this thing seems to be alive, we need to send some nuclear bombs over there
(Long Spike)
Yep. That's about as close to the sun as I ever want to get.
(Old Spike)
It's beautiful and undebatable, so nice.
(Site Administrator)
Just add milk!
(Old Spike)
[...] The movie shows the turbulent, “boiling” gas that covers the entire sun. The cell-like structures – each about the size of Texas – are the signature of violent motions that transport heat from the inside of the sun to its surface. Hot solar material (plasma) rises in the bright centers of “cells,” cools off and then sinks below the surface in dark lanes in a process known as convection. In these dark lanes we can also see the tiny, bright markers of magnetic fields. Never before seen to this clarity, these bright specks are thought to channel energy up into the outer layers of the solar atmosphere called the corona. These bright spots may be at the core of why the solar corona is more than a million degrees! [...]