NASA’s SOHO mission team has posted some beautiful images of our local star under the fitting header The Sun as Art with descriptive captions. Some of the images have been reworked, but most are simply composites or color filters. They’re remarkable, and a reminder of the enormous power of a massive hydrogen fusion reactor (And potential energy source) pumping out 4 trillion terawatts a mere 93 million miles away. Now if only I could find the original slideshow link …
Randomfactor says
Too many r’s in “terawatts”? Or was that a pun on a measure of the earth’s cumulative power usage?
StevoR says
I think there’s atheme song for this post, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tV11acSRk
Marvellous solar gallery. Cheers. :-)
lordshipmayhem says
Love it – the pictures are gorgeous.
So, when are we getting close-ups of Spica? NASA, I think we need to start sending manned missions there!