Undertoad Tuesday Mar 25 09:34 PM3/25/2003: Sun Temperature
Server problems prevented a posting from yesterday, and for a few people this will be a REpost, but:
This is a false color image of the sun from Astronomy Pic of the Day. They've chosen to place red at 2 million, green at 1.5 million, and blue at 1 million degrees C. It does give you an interesting sense of what's going on, eh?
Bitman Tuesday Mar 25 10:06 PMRe: 3/25/2003: Sun Temperature
Nice. But what does the white mean? 4.5 megadegrees? Or did someone forget that computer color values stop at 255?
Elspode Tuesday Mar 25 10:50 PMExcellent pic, UT, as usual. This picture clearly shows that the corona of the sun is the hottest part. Only recently have scientists figured out why that is...now, if I could only remember what it was they said. Something about lines of magnetic force and their effect on the particles trapped therein.
wolf Wednesday Mar 26 01:16 AMAmazing.
93 million miles away and it's still uncomfortably warm.
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