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Old 06-29-2003, 11:31 AM   #1
Undertoad
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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?
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