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What's with the Sun?

Category: Prime Stream
Posted on: June 19, 2007 11:34 AM, by Selva

sun-ooze.gif Looks like the Sun has a cold and is oozing plasma.

Saw the video via APOD: "The Sun's photosphere has thousands of bumps called granules and usually a few dark depressions called sunspots. The above time-lapse movie centered on Sunspot 875 was taken last year by the Vacuum Tower Telescope in the Canary Islands of Spain using adaptive optics to resolve details below 500 kilometers across. Each of the numerous granules is the size of an Earth continent, but much shorter lived. A granule slowly changes its shape over an hour, and can even completely disappear. Hot hydrogen gas rises in the bright center of a granule, and falls back into the Sun along a dark granule edge."

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