Monday, July 10, 2006

Dark Sizzling Sun


Another cool pic for a hot summer day: this is the sun, photographed in three colors of ultra-violet light. Its surface bubbles as hydrogen streams along looped and tangled magnetic fields. Doesn't this make you want to pack a picnic and head out for the beach?

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Credit: TRACE Project--Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research, NASA

4 comments:

Nienke Hinton said...

That is incredibly beautiful.

liz elayne lamoreux said...

oh this is very cool. i will have to share it with my husband (the physics teacher).

westcoastmama said...

What an ispirational picture...so very pretty

Joyce Ellen Davis said...

Hi, y'all! Thanks for looking. Glad to see you.