Sunday, September 18, 2011

The Sun...

In recent years, the quality of the solar images scientists can capture has gone up dramatically.  The one at right shows the edge of a sunspot.  Often these amazing images have been taken from satellites, but the one at right was taken from a ground-based telescope, using several sophisticated adaptive optical systems and some digital post-processing. 

Via APOD, of course...

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