Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day:

It’s a false-color image of the Sun in ultraviolet (click for better resolution). Put together using data from TRACE, a NASA Small Explorer satellite. You’re seeing the bubbling gas of the solar corona looping along magnetic fields.


July 10th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Forza il sole!
Forza astronomia!
July 10th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Ooh… APOD. Now that is a nifty link.
And nice to see a different face for something so familar.
July 10th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
Go go gadget solar UV imager!
July 13th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Now that just made my desktop (replacing a simulated ATLAS event display that’s been there for almost a year), so thanks.
July 16th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
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