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By: A Fine Picture: Staring at the Sun | A Few Reasonable Words

A Fine Picture: Staring at the Sun | A Few Reasonable Words — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:49:08 +0000

[...] Bad Astronomy’s piece on Alan Friedman’s image of the sun “in the light of hydrogen” (which blogger Phil Plait explains in his engaging way.) [...]

By: Otto Hunt

Otto Hunt — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:44:33 +0000

The image on Google+, and at http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/deepbluesea.html (but not at the top of this page) show some bright white spots near the center. What is that?

By: jvdh

jvdh — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:22:58 +0000

sorry, but its just a tennisbal (to me)

By: UFO Blog | Blog | The delicate tendrils of a solar dragon

UFO Blog | Blog | The delicate tendrils of a solar dragon — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:10:04 +0000

[...] is an “amateur” astronomer who takes astonishing images of the Sun. You may remember his picture of our star that was so cool I chose it as one of my Top 14 Pictures of [...]

By: Hold On

Hold On — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:35:34 +0000

Wow great pic.. and thanks for the info about vy canis majoris, that’s incredible too!

By: The Most Incredible Image Of The Sun I Think I Have Ever Seen | FEELguide

The Most Incredible Image Of The Sun I Think I Have Ever Seen | FEELguide — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:04:49 +0000

[...] picture was taken by Alan Friedman, who is no stranger to this blog: his picture of the boiling Sun last year was hugely popular, and so amazing I featured it as one of my top pictures of 2010. And [...]

By: The Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010

The Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010 — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:14:18 +0000

[...] is why Alan Friedman’s solar portrait blew me away when I saw it. It’s actually a composite of two pictures: the outer limb of the [...]

By: Stjerneslugeren | fanzine.dk

Stjerneslugeren | fanzine.dk — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:12:06 +0000

[...] Okay, ikke helt sandt, men det er stadig ret cool. Man kan læse og se mere her. [...]

By: Identify this Celestial Body « Knife City Creamery

Identify this Celestial Body « Knife City Creamery — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:02:48 +0000

[...] Phil Plait @ Discovery Magazine explains: The Sun’s surface puts out light at all wavelengths, but the surface isn’t solid. It’s a gas, and it tapers off with height. Normally, a thin gas in space emits light at very specific colors as electrons jump from one energy level to another in the individual atoms. But compressed gas in the thicker, denser part of the Sun mashes together all those energies, spreading them out, so it emits white light (that layer of the Sun is called the photosphere). Above that layer, where the gas is thinner (in a layer called the chromosphere), the hydrogen does emit light at specific colors. One of these, Hα, is in the red part of the spectrum, and in fact hot, thin hydrogen emits very strongly in Hα. [...]

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Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:04:01 +0000

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