Tag: sun
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Photographer captures rare Devil Horns solar eclipse over the Persian Gulf
On December 26, 2019, amateur photographer Elias Chasiotis captured an incredible ‘red devil horns’ sunrise over the Persian Gulf during a rare solar eclipse. The Athens-based photographer was vacationing in the coastal city of Al Wakrah in Qatar just before the new year when he snapped the rare spectacle of the moon blocking the sun.…
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NASA and ESA capture closest images of the sun ever taken
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have snapped the closest pictures ever taken of the sun. The images, taken nearly 48 million miles away from the sun’s surface by the Solar Orbiter probe (launched February 9), reveal countless tiny flares which scientists have called “campfires.” Scientists hope that these never-before seen exterior shots will…
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What the northern lights look like from a U-2 spy plane at 70,000ft.
U-2 pilot and instructor and avid photographer Ross Franquemont took these snaps of the spectacular aurora borealis — or, northern lights, while flying the legendary U-2 spycraft. “I had no idea how fast the aurora moved and changed. It danced around, changing shape several times a second. That made it a challenge for the photographer…
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See the sharpest movie of the sun ever made, with each plasma cell the size of Texas
The sun is about 93,000,000 miles away from Earth. The sun’s light travels at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, in total taking just 8 minutes to reach us. The National Solar Observatory (NSO) has brought us the sharpest view of the sun we’ve seen yet using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. Each…
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What the sunset looks like on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Rover photographed this view of the sun setting from its 956th Martian day on Mars. The above image is actually a sequence of four images taken over a span of 6 minutes, 51 seconds. Check out the full GIF below. Said Mark Lemmon of Texas A&M University, College Station who planned the Curiosity…