6/29/2003: Sun's surface

Turns out this is a shot from a Swedish telescope located in the Canary Islands and... well I can't really rewrite the official information, so:

<i>...allows imaging of objects less than 100-km across on the Sun's surface. When pointed toward the Sun's edge, surface objects now begin to block each other, indicating true three-dimensional information. Close inspection of the image reveals much vertical information, including spectacular light-bridges rising nearly 500-km above the floor of sunspots near the top of the image. Also visible in the above false-color image are hundreds of bubbling granules, each about 1000-km across, and small bright regions known as faculas.</i>

Or maybe I just took a picture of some bubbling brown sugar and this is a grand fake?

Dunno. I thought it was maybe a close up shot of an orange ...

APOD shot from June24. A nice acompanyment to the APOD shot from 2002 November 14. Too bad there isn't a ratio included to understand the scope of the shot but a cool backdrop none the less...

I saw something like that growing on an old wino.

At first glance, I thought it was pores.

Too cool! Somebody else remembers that! (she says as she hums the theme song) Now I'm going to have to try to find out if there's a DVD release. I know there were videos, but I didn't manage to score any of them. (I have the ViewMaster reels, though. )

Here's another.