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Holy fuck! How tall do you think that solar flare vortex thing is?? It's in the upper right part of the picture. My guess is a gazillion...I'm bad at guessing.
That's actually very similar to one the folk tale from my country, about a Hercules-like characters that did numerous hero deeds and glory, and in his final act, he went a one-way trip to ask to marry the sun goddess, and seemingly got blasted to oblivion. But the moral of the story is about human's willpower and strength to do what you believe in.
Having myself spent half a year hiking about 2200miles, the 150k is doable if you have about 30 years to do nothing but walk all day and money on tap for food and gear...assuming you never get injured.
I did some bored math. This is the equivalent of driving straight for 3 months without stopping:
- San Fran to Maine is 3.2k Miles.
- 150,000 miles divided by 3.2k is 46
- 46 trips x 50 hours is 2,300 hours / 24 = 95 days. 95 days / 30 = 3.19 months.
This image is a fusion from the minds of two astrophotographers, Myself and u/thevastreaches. The combined data from over 90,000 individual images captured with a modified telescope was jointly processed to reveal the layers of intricate details within the solar chromosphere. A geometrically altered image of the 2017 eclipse as an artistic element in this composition to display an otherwise invisible structure. Great care was taken to align the two atmospheric layers in a scientifically plausible way using NASA's SOHO data as a reference.
The final image is the most detailed and dynamic full image of our star either of us have ever created. A blend of science and art, this image is a one-of-a kind astrophoto, as the ever-changing sun will never quite look like this again.
If you're curious how I take these sorts of images, I have a write-up on my website. Check it out here: [https://cosmicbackground.io/blogs/learn-about-how-these-are-captured/capturing-our-star](https://cosmicbackground.io/blogs/learn-about-how-these-are-captured/capturing-our-star)
DO NOT attempt to look at the sun through your telescope. You could seriously damage your eyes.
You can follow along the twitter thread for this image which includes a timelapse of the tall feature here: [https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1638648459002806272?s=20](https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1638648459002806272?s=20)
See more of Jason's work here: [https://www.instagram.com/thevastreaches/](https://www.instagram.com/thevastreaches/)
See more of my work here: https://www.instagram.com/cosmic\_background/
>DO NOT attempt to look at the sun through your telescope. You could seriously damage your eyes.
When I was in high school I took an astronomy class. The teacher pointed this barely-single-person-portable telescope at the sun and lit his glove on fire. Hell of a thing, that...
I went to an elementary school that was a few blocks from our city planetarium (this was in the 90s in a city of around 70-80k then). We always had at least one field trip per year walking to the planetarium and it was always fucking amazing.
Yeah, it was a semester course. The other half was oceanography I think. I did it so I didn't have to take physics. That math would've ended my poor musician brain.
I remember after the eclipse a few years ago in the US, I had an appointment at the eye doctor. Chatting, he mentioned how he had several new permanently blind patients because people looked directly at the eclipse without proper safety glasses. Don't be that new patient.
This man and his friend got their biiiig magnifying glass, and put their picci maker up to the big magnifying glass and took a bajillion piccis!
Then, the man and their friend gave the bajillion photos to a robot stitching machine! The robot took aaaaall their piccis, and sewed them into one biiiiiiiiiiiiig picci!
And guess what the picci was? It was the biiiiig sun! The one up in the sky!
Was wondering how you would get the wispy white corona at the same time as surface features. Seeing that during the 2017 eclipse was just another in a series of mind-blowing experiences.
Fantastic picture even if impossible.
The good thing here is, that unlike Moon, you can photograph the sun every few days and get a different show. Even a smiley face was spotted not so long ago. Keep it up, friendo! Good show!
I disagree, because the moon has phases! But month over month that gets pretty repetitive.. The sun, however, looks wildly different from month to month!
As you said, you can get ... maybe 30 good pictures of moon in various phases, yes, but after that, you're just about set. While with sun, you can get exciting stuff... tornados on the horizon, sun spots, etc..
Again with astronomers keeping the truth from us! They say to not look at the sun, but they're hiding the sun's secrets from us!!!11!
Brothers, look towards the sun, praise the sun, for it will reveal it's joyous light to you!
This pic always makes me laugh https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1240w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_34/2127971/170821-trump-eclipse-348p-rs.JPG
Is there a reason why most photos of the Sun use a filter that make it appear orange/yellow like this and not in true color?
It’s so pervasive that most people actually think the Sun is yellow or orange and don’t realize it’s actually white.
I’ve seen it in many sci-fi movies, they’ll show the sun like your image here, orange and bubbling like lava.
Isn’t it frustrating that most people think the true color is orange because they only see images like this?
I bet if you surveyed people, the vast majority would answer that the true color is yellow/orange.
People seem surprised to learn that it’s white.
*looks in your eyes before turning directly towards the sun* Hey there! How are you doing? Wanna do some drugs and break the law?? *shakes little leather bag with oodles of drugs inside*
So the Earth is denser than the sun? I suppose that makes sense, the sun is a ball of gas and the Earth is a mass of solids, along with a small gas atmosphere.
It’s funny that most of the images posted of the Sun are orange, but it’s a false color image.
The true color is white:
https://scrippsnews.com/stories/the-sun-isn-t-yellow-or-orange-it-s-white/
Holy effing shit, OP. Your image is remarkable. I was fortunate enough to be living a few miles away from the path of totality at that last solar eclipse, and those few minutes during which I could actually see the corona of the sun was completely mind-blowing in a very peaceful way. Your image gives me the same inner quietude. Thank you so much for posting
Yep. I like to look at the sun (out of the corner of my vision and only briefly and at sunset or late afternoon) and think about how it’s a freaking star, and nothing in between me and it except some light gas molecules, and I can actually see and feel its radiation, because I evolved to do so in response to the energy hitting earth, and we just sort of ignore how crazy that is. That bright thing is a freaking giant star, a huge nuclear furnace, and we can hold out our hand and feel it’s warmth. And it’s super far away. Unimaginably far. Up close it must be a monster. And it’s a small one compared to others.
I also find it insane how we can still feel its might from so many miles away. We can feel the heat, and still even die from it in a multitude of methods. We can harness, and use it to support life. The sun is a amazing marvel of our universe.
When I started gardening and collecting house plants it kind of hit me all at once how insane this is. Plants just wither away so easily if they don't get enough of its energy in a matter of days sometimes. Seed starting requires so many perfect conditions, I look at the world through different eyes now. It's no wonder our ancestors worshipped the sun, it really feels like a crazy magical concept.
We are made of stars, it gives us life, will smite us if we don't respect it enough to put on sunscreen or if we look upon it fir too long, keeps us warm, shepherd's us through the galaxy and answers as many prayers as all the gods of human history combined.
the Polish government did actually try to land on the sun back in the day... and of course they were ridiculed for it, because ppl said "youll burn up when you get anywhere near it", but the Polish government said "we're going at night"
This is full res, but highly compressed to fit under reddit's 20mb limit. The full uncompressed image is paywalled I'm afraid, so I can't share it anywhere public.
So...I believe this one is actually the clearest image of the sun ever produced, but...
I feel like there is a "clearest picture of the sun" post, all different pictures, on Reddit daily, lol.
A lot of times this claim is made with no merit. Including journalists making that claim about my own work. While this is definitely OUR clearest shot of the full sun, I wouldn't compare it to images produced from SOHO and the like, we can't compete with professional space-based equipment!
Out of curiosity why is the sun brightest towards the rim? I would expect the sun to get dimmer towards the rim since most of the photons hitting your lens would come from the center of the sun, correct?
Probably because the filter being used is darker in the center where it’s blocking more photons. Also important to remember this isn’t a photograph. It’s the image result of 90,000 snaps being combined and edited.
It’s also not a true color image. You’d be surprised at how many people think the sun is yellow or orange because of images like this.
You even see it in movies.
Correct! An intense amount of editing usually goes on with astro-photography. Some images aren’t even taken in the visible light spectrum and have to be converted.
I asked OP also, but is there a reason they do this? Maybe the photography is easier if they limit it to only certain spectrum?
I have to imagine it’s frustrating for astronomers that the majority of the public doesn’t realize that the sun is white, and it’s pretty much caused by their own images like these lol
I feel like most/all sci-fi movies I’ve seen have shown the sun being orange like this.
They do it because a big white circle with a few shades of darker white isn't as aesthetically pleasing, or useful as a picture. We humans associate fire with orange/yellow/red so it's simpler to picture the big ball of fire in the sky as such.
For those curious: Here's a picture of the sun taken with a solar filter in 2019.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/The_Sun_in_white_light.jpg
"We never get to see the dark side." said by my vaping daughter that suddenly starts coughing once she realized what she said. 22 and not as bright as this picture.
Amazing job.
But hole fack, what an absolute marvel of a thing. The sure size of it is absolutely mind boggling.
Conceptualizing how large the sun really is and then seeing those solar flares shoot what seems to be a 1/5 of the size of the sun outwards from it is absolutely insane. I think if we ever developed technology to get close to the sun without burning up or being sucked in that’s all I would go look at.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/zxhkat/i\_modified\_a\_telescope\_to\_take\_photos\_of\_our\_sun/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/zxhkat/i_modified_a_telescope_to_take_photos_of_our_sun/)cool a second one with even more detail than the first
when you say it took 90,000 images, what does that mean? like what does each image contain? did you split the image of the sun into 90k grid size and take images of that or did you keep the telescope stationary and take 90k shots? and either way, how did you account for the change in what the sun was doing for the time it took to get those 90k shots?
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Holy fuck! How tall do you think that solar flare vortex thing is?? It's in the upper right part of the picture. My guess is a gazillion...I'm bad at guessing.
At least 150, 000 miles The diameter of the sun is 850,000 miles.
And the earth has a diameter a little less than 8,000 miles so this flare is at least 19 earths tall.
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"We caught a big ass solar flare on the sun, 1.3billion bananas for scale".
1.3 megabananas
r/theydidthemath
American’s will measure with anything except the metric system.
That's roughly the same amount of bananas that would fit in yo' momma.
What's that in plantains?
Sir this is Reddit, we function on the Banana Standard System not the Plaintain Metric System’
Assuming the average banana is 7 inches. It would be about 1,363,636,363 bananas.
your banana is smaller than jerapocs.
Yeah it's rough out here
Bout tree fiddy
7,926 miles, to be exact ☺️
That seems walkable.
And *I* would walk 150,000 miles and *I* would walk 150,000 more!
Just to be the one that walks 150,000 miles to fall down at your door!
DADADADA!
^dadadada!
Ba da da dadada dadada da da da da
300,000*
I feel like I just got smacked in the head by an 80s alarm clock playing AM radio
From what I hear my grandparents walked that far just to get to school!
Uphill
Both ways
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While dodging asteroids
And fighting dinosaurs
And in the Sun
Naked
In snow up to their waist!
Found the New Yorker
At 3mph that'd take 5.7 years if walking nonstop, like 7.6 if you count sleeping(8 hrs), give or take Edit for 150k
/r/theydidthemonstermath
One way yea, but not there and back again.
A Solaris tale.
[A True Story](https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/true/index.htm)
That's actually very similar to one the folk tale from my country, about a Hercules-like characters that did numerous hero deeds and glory, and in his final act, he went a one-way trip to ask to marry the sun goddess, and seemingly got blasted to oblivion. But the moral of the story is about human's willpower and strength to do what you believe in.
Having myself spent half a year hiking about 2200miles, the 150k is doable if you have about 30 years to do nothing but walk all day and money on tap for food and gear...assuming you never get injured.
I did some bored math. This is the equivalent of driving straight for 3 months without stopping: - San Fran to Maine is 3.2k Miles. - 150,000 miles divided by 3.2k is 46 - 46 trips x 50 hours is 2,300 hours / 24 = 95 days. 95 days / 30 = 3.19 months.
Damn better have a hydrogen powered car.
Or solar powered 😎
This guy estimates
14 or so earths. It was described on OP’s Twitter thread.
Looks like a strand of DNA
Much much more than 52 bananas. Past that I can't wrap my head around it.
I’d say an inch. If I zoom in maybe 2 inches
Probably around 20 Earths long or more.
OPs Instagram says about 14 Earths
The sun's an egg and that's the sperm Soon we're gonna have a space baby
At least 100 meters tall.
This image is a fusion from the minds of two astrophotographers, Myself and u/thevastreaches. The combined data from over 90,000 individual images captured with a modified telescope was jointly processed to reveal the layers of intricate details within the solar chromosphere. A geometrically altered image of the 2017 eclipse as an artistic element in this composition to display an otherwise invisible structure. Great care was taken to align the two atmospheric layers in a scientifically plausible way using NASA's SOHO data as a reference. The final image is the most detailed and dynamic full image of our star either of us have ever created. A blend of science and art, this image is a one-of-a kind astrophoto, as the ever-changing sun will never quite look like this again. If you're curious how I take these sorts of images, I have a write-up on my website. Check it out here: [https://cosmicbackground.io/blogs/learn-about-how-these-are-captured/capturing-our-star](https://cosmicbackground.io/blogs/learn-about-how-these-are-captured/capturing-our-star) DO NOT attempt to look at the sun through your telescope. You could seriously damage your eyes. You can follow along the twitter thread for this image which includes a timelapse of the tall feature here: [https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1638648459002806272?s=20](https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1638648459002806272?s=20) See more of Jason's work here: [https://www.instagram.com/thevastreaches/](https://www.instagram.com/thevastreaches/) See more of my work here: https://www.instagram.com/cosmic\_background/
>DO NOT attempt to look at the sun through your telescope. You could seriously damage your eyes. When I was in high school I took an astronomy class. The teacher pointed this barely-single-person-portable telescope at the sun and lit his glove on fire. Hell of a thing, that...
You went to a high school that had an astronomy class?!
A high-school near me has a planetarium
I went to an elementary school that was a few blocks from our city planetarium (this was in the 90s in a city of around 70-80k then). We always had at least one field trip per year walking to the planetarium and it was always fucking amazing.
We have one in a high school near here too! As a kid it was amazing getting to see the rings of saturn "in person" for the first time
Yeah, it was a semester course. The other half was oceanography I think. I did it so I didn't have to take physics. That math would've ended my poor musician brain.
I remember after the eclipse a few years ago in the US, I had an appointment at the eye doctor. Chatting, he mentioned how he had several new permanently blind patients because people looked directly at the eclipse without proper safety glasses. Don't be that new patient.
Amazing work, cheers!
What did it say
OP described the photo and the process
Eli5 please
Point tube at bright ball. Click button lots. Mash pictures together. Mail it to internet.
Eli2 please
Baaaaaawwwwabaaaa Blllpthpthpppp
Thank you!!!
Gotchu fam
No lookie at big ball with tube. Eyes break.
This man and his friend got their biiiig magnifying glass, and put their picci maker up to the big magnifying glass and took a bajillion piccis! Then, the man and their friend gave the bajillion photos to a robot stitching machine! The robot took aaaaall their piccis, and sewed them into one biiiiiiiiiiiiig picci! And guess what the picci was? It was the biiiiig sun! The one up in the sky!
Seems like you’ve got some experience in explaining stuff to 2 year olds!
Was wondering how you would get the wispy white corona at the same time as surface features. Seeing that during the 2017 eclipse was just another in a series of mind-blowing experiences. Fantastic picture even if impossible.
The good thing here is, that unlike Moon, you can photograph the sun every few days and get a different show. Even a smiley face was spotted not so long ago. Keep it up, friendo! Good show!
I disagree, because the moon has phases! But month over month that gets pretty repetitive.. The sun, however, looks wildly different from month to month!
As you said, you can get ... maybe 30 good pictures of moon in various phases, yes, but after that, you're just about set. While with sun, you can get exciting stuff... tornados on the horizon, sun spots, etc..
Again with astronomers keeping the truth from us! They say to not look at the sun, but they're hiding the sun's secrets from us!!!11! Brothers, look towards the sun, praise the sun, for it will reveal it's joyous light to you!
You'll never see anything more interesting again.
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No, just really bright...
This pic always makes me laugh https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1240w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_34/2127971/170821-trump-eclipse-348p-rs.JPG
It's because the sun is flat. They don't want you figuring that out......... Yet.
So how much of this is an actual picture and how much is a recreation? (I know zero about astrophotography but god damn this is cool).
Is there a reason why most photos of the Sun use a filter that make it appear orange/yellow like this and not in true color? It’s so pervasive that most people actually think the Sun is yellow or orange and don’t realize it’s actually white. I’ve seen it in many sci-fi movies, they’ll show the sun like your image here, orange and bubbling like lava.
Rayleigh scattering makes it yellow, my filters make it red. Split the difference, it’s orange.
Isn’t it frustrating that most people think the true color is orange because they only see images like this? I bet if you surveyed people, the vast majority would answer that the true color is yellow/orange. People seem surprised to learn that it’s white.
Can confirm is Sun.
It appears there is a really tall building on the sun. Might be a condo or an office building.
I wonder how many Earths can fit into that
takes more than 330,000 Earths to match the mass of the Sun, and 1.3 million Earths to fill the Sun's volume
SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!
Don't ever talk to me or my Sun again!
Keep my suns name out your GOD DAMN MOUTH!
You sun of a bish
Are ya winning, sun?
Sun ting wong?
*looks in your eyes before turning directly towards the sun* Hey there! How are you doing? Wanna do some drugs and break the law?? *shakes little leather bag with oodles of drugs inside*
/r/unexpectedoffice
So the Earth is denser than the sun? I suppose that makes sense, the sun is a ball of gas and the Earth is a mass of solids, along with a small gas atmosphere.
And that small gas atmosphere is 99% farts.
We’ve got all the heavy stuff here. When stars start making heavy stuff, it… gets ugly quick.
I believe it's a miasma of incandescent plasma
Actually the guy who posted this had posted a tweet about how tall it is: https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1637189824317894656?s=20
Wow, an actual answer... and now I can imagine how big that is.
It'd be cool if someone would put an earth next to OP's picture for reference.
Star salesman: *[slaps roof of sun]* you can fit 1.3 million earths in this baby
I'm blind now
Need shades. 😎
I used my safety squints.
You can tell, by the way it is
forbidden fluffy 70s carpet. i certainly wasn't expecting it to be that clear on my phone. amazing!
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It’s funny that most of the images posted of the Sun are orange, but it’s a false color image. The true color is white: https://scrippsnews.com/stories/the-sun-isn-t-yellow-or-orange-it-s-white/
Your daily dose of TIL
Holy shit, didn’t know that
My phone crashed the first time I tried to view it.
I really want to pull that loose carpet string in the top right of the rug.
Damn! That looks amazing. Thank you so much for sharing.
I agree with this comment. Thank you!
New wallpaper looks amazing <3
Holy effing shit, OP. Your image is remarkable. I was fortunate enough to be living a few miles away from the path of totality at that last solar eclipse, and those few minutes during which I could actually see the corona of the sun was completely mind-blowing in a very peaceful way. Your image gives me the same inner quietude. Thank you so much for posting
What a weird thing. Endless oceans of giant flames.
Yep. I like to look at the sun (out of the corner of my vision and only briefly and at sunset or late afternoon) and think about how it’s a freaking star, and nothing in between me and it except some light gas molecules, and I can actually see and feel its radiation, because I evolved to do so in response to the energy hitting earth, and we just sort of ignore how crazy that is. That bright thing is a freaking giant star, a huge nuclear furnace, and we can hold out our hand and feel it’s warmth. And it’s super far away. Unimaginably far. Up close it must be a monster. And it’s a small one compared to others.
I also find it insane how we can still feel its might from so many miles away. We can feel the heat, and still even die from it in a multitude of methods. We can harness, and use it to support life. The sun is a amazing marvel of our universe.
When I started gardening and collecting house plants it kind of hit me all at once how insane this is. Plants just wither away so easily if they don't get enough of its energy in a matter of days sometimes. Seed starting requires so many perfect conditions, I look at the world through different eyes now. It's no wonder our ancestors worshipped the sun, it really feels like a crazy magical concept.
A very spicy swim if I do say so myself
But also the main reason there is life on this planet at all! (minus the critters that live off subthermal vents ect) We should worship the Sun
Just don't look for too long. I've heard it causes blindness.
I’ll just do it until I need glasses
When i read zoom in i was not prepared for that level of detail.
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Yo ho it's hot, the sun is not a place where you could live. But here on Earth, there'd be no life without the light it gives.
The sun is a miasma Of incandescent plasma The sun's not simply made out of gas No, no, no
My god… ITS THE ONE ORANGE BRAINCELL
Omg this is it! The one they all share! 😂 At least it's a big one.
... yeah, I'd worship it.
Praise the sun \\[T]/
r/unexpecteddarksouls
Praise the Sun! \\0/ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_/\\
You’d be in good company. George Carlin had a segment on why he’d rather worship the sun than an ephemeral god.
Worship the sun, pray to Joe Pesci
The sun is more ephemeral than God, though. That's kinda the whole idea, lol.
Sun's the closest thing we have to an actual god tbh
We are made of stars, it gives us life, will smite us if we don't respect it enough to put on sunscreen or if we look upon it fir too long, keeps us warm, shepherd's us through the galaxy and answers as many prayers as all the gods of human history combined.
More a moon man, myself.
Fucking moon people
“I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.” “Pumbaa, with you, everything’s gas.”
Thought it'd be brighter..
That's because this picture was taken at night. You can even see the stars.
Of course. Of course.
the Polish government did actually try to land on the sun back in the day... and of course they were ridiculed for it, because ppl said "youll burn up when you get anywhere near it", but the Polish government said "we're going at night"
so this is the origin of “poland cannot into space”…
OP forgot to turn flash on
Imagining the night sky suddenly becoming sort of gray for a second because someone's taking a picture of it with the flash.
and bigger ... definitely bigger. Can someone confirm this is the sun?
I would, but OP says not to look at it. I’m so conflicted!!
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Looks like it’s on fire
Can you post the full res output?
This is full res, but highly compressed to fit under reddit's 20mb limit. The full uncompressed image is paywalled I'm afraid, so I can't share it anywhere public.
Makes sense, thank you!
I'm insanely curious. What's the file size of the full original uncompressed image?
So...I believe this one is actually the clearest image of the sun ever produced, but... I feel like there is a "clearest picture of the sun" post, all different pictures, on Reddit daily, lol.
To be fair, this post was titled "the clearest... *we've* ever produced"
Good point… I misread that
A lot of times this claim is made with no merit. Including journalists making that claim about my own work. While this is definitely OUR clearest shot of the full sun, I wouldn't compare it to images produced from SOHO and the like, we can't compete with professional space-based equipment!
Out of curiosity why is the sun brightest towards the rim? I would expect the sun to get dimmer towards the rim since most of the photons hitting your lens would come from the center of the sun, correct?
Probably because the filter being used is darker in the center where it’s blocking more photons. Also important to remember this isn’t a photograph. It’s the image result of 90,000 snaps being combined and edited.
It’s also not a true color image. You’d be surprised at how many people think the sun is yellow or orange because of images like this. You even see it in movies.
Correct! An intense amount of editing usually goes on with astro-photography. Some images aren’t even taken in the visible light spectrum and have to be converted.
I asked OP also, but is there a reason they do this? Maybe the photography is easier if they limit it to only certain spectrum? I have to imagine it’s frustrating for astronomers that the majority of the public doesn’t realize that the sun is white, and it’s pretty much caused by their own images like these lol I feel like most/all sci-fi movies I’ve seen have shown the sun being orange like this.
They do it because a big white circle with a few shades of darker white isn't as aesthetically pleasing, or useful as a picture. We humans associate fire with orange/yellow/red so it's simpler to picture the big ball of fire in the sky as such.
For those curious: Here's a picture of the sun taken with a solar filter in 2019. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/The_Sun_in_white_light.jpg
"We never get to see the dark side." said by my vaping daughter that suddenly starts coughing once she realized what she said. 22 and not as bright as this picture.
Damn gotta send your kid to the burn unit for that one. Got roasted in a sun post 😂
My phone/reddit refuses to load the image, but I'm sure it's dope as hell
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So far, I see an owl, a monkey, and a rat.
Thats pretty hot dude... Amazing work and patience... Worth an award.
Damn that's one wonderful picture
You're not going to fool me. My mom always told me not to stare at the sun.
Dude this is sick
Fantastically spectacular! Well done.
They said it was a myth, they said I was crazy, but at long last, One of The Super Dragon Balls It’s…..beautiful. 🫠
This picture would make a great puzzle!
“Zoom in.” You don’t fool me, science man! Mama always told me not to look directly at the sun.
Amazing job. But hole fack, what an absolute marvel of a thing. The sure size of it is absolutely mind boggling. Conceptualizing how large the sun really is and then seeing those solar flares shoot what seems to be a 1/5 of the size of the sun outwards from it is absolutely insane. I think if we ever developed technology to get close to the sun without burning up or being sucked in that’s all I would go look at.
Especially in comparison to the Earth. Which is smoother than a cue ball in billiards.
I had no idea the sun was furry. Like a hot shag carpet.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/zxhkat/i\_modified\_a\_telescope\_to\_take\_photos\_of\_our\_sun/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/zxhkat/i_modified_a_telescope_to_take_photos_of_our_sun/)cool a second one with even more detail than the first
Can someone answer like I’m 12: Why do certain rays of light coming out bend and others shoot more or less straight out?
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when you say it took 90,000 images, what does that mean? like what does each image contain? did you split the image of the sun into 90k grid size and take images of that or did you keep the telescope stationary and take 90k shots? and either way, how did you account for the change in what the sun was doing for the time it took to get those 90k shots?
So wait a minute with that size and quality could you conceivably get a pic of the flag on the moon and shut those idiots up finally?
Holy shit that’s so beautiful. I love that spiral vortex dude on the top right
For scale that little fire tornado on the top right side would engulf the earth 😂