The scale and violence of the processes that drive the Sun are really mind-blowing. 43 million km away and it's getting on for 20kW per square metre. Edit: the probe is that far from the sun.
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dmitshur
Have people wondered about a possibility of an advanced life form hiding inside a star? It doesn't seem easy, but there'd be an abundance of energy, and the less advanced life forms are unlikely to interfere.
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Bengalilol
I am puzzled by the « sun in visible light » picture: what is this # in the middle of it? (Physical phenomenom, or artifact from the pictures)
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PittleyDunkin
> The process took more than four hours, since the spacecraft had to change position for each individual photograph. In the final mosaics, the sun’s diameter is almost 8,000 pixels across.
I'm guessing this is sort of equivalent to manual supersampling rather than combining adjacent (ie visually translated to the next subsquare of the photo) viewpoints? Four hours is a pretty short time for 48 million miles of distance.
Edit: well considering orbital velocity I guess they probably just zigzag'd perpendicular to the orbital plane?
maplant
I will be avoiding looking at them directly so I don’t hurt my eyes
Larrikin
Is there no PNG or JPG? A lot of these space photos make nice backgrounds, but they're increasingly being displayed in weird zoomable only on a web page galleries
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User23
Displaying this would be a fun use of the Las Vegas Sphere.
gsliepen
"Resolution" is used very loosely here. They are very big images of the full Sun (in terms of the number of pixels), but there are also various telescopes that "zoom in" much more on a small part of the Sun, resulting in images with much higher details than the ones from this article.
dukeofdoom
How crazy is it that sun spots look like skin cancer, or skin cancer looks like sun spots.
I’m astounded by how plain and round the visible light images are. Why is the corona only visible in the UV images, if it is, according to the article, visible from earth?
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luxuryballs
it’s wild that we have all this data but we don’t really know what any of this stuff actually is (celestial bodies overall not just the sun) only what radiations they give off that we can read and recognize, for all we know stars are the outer shell of a multidimensional being and the heat is just an effect of us not being able to ascend dimensionally in order to pass into it because it’s “above” spacetime and attempting to pass through means transcending into an eternal realm which we of course would be vaporized because our matter is in this dimension, or it could be (insert anything, we may never know!)
LetsGetTechnicl
Every time I learn something new about the Sun or see photos like this it makes sense we used to worship it (and maybe we should bring that back.)
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ano-ther
How do they picture the magnetic field from far away like this? I would have thought that the probe can only sense the local field.
_7acn
Cool. BTW, the sun shines white, not yellow.
eleveriven
Sunspots and the visible dynamics around them are always so mesmerizing
hulitu
> Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s entire surface
I thought Sol was basically white? very yellow/orange in the left-most image.
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Tokkemon
Great balls of fire!
webdoodle
This is great and all, but they are just snapshots in time. We need total 360 degree coverage of the sun 24/7. Stereo A and B did this great, but when Stereo B failed, it was never replaced.
Link to the raw image files (9600x9600, about 10-20 MB each):
Visible: https://eopro.esa.int/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PHI_Visible...
Magnetogram: https://eopro.esa.int/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PHI_Magneto...
Velocity map: https://eopro.esa.int/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PHI_Velocit...
Ultraviolet: https://eopro.esa.int/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/EUI_Ultravi...
Best looking image ever captured of the Sun's entire surface goes to:
https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1638648459002806272
by
Andrew McCarthy: https://www.instagram.com/cosmic_background/
Jason Guenzel: https://www.instagram.com/thevastreaches/
Actual zoomable images here: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_...
The scale and violence of the processes that drive the Sun are really mind-blowing. 43 million km away and it's getting on for 20kW per square metre. Edit: the probe is that far from the sun.
Have people wondered about a possibility of an advanced life form hiding inside a star? It doesn't seem easy, but there'd be an abundance of energy, and the less advanced life forms are unlikely to interfere.
I am puzzled by the « sun in visible light » picture: what is this # in the middle of it? (Physical phenomenom, or artifact from the pictures)
> The process took more than four hours, since the spacecraft had to change position for each individual photograph. In the final mosaics, the sun’s diameter is almost 8,000 pixels across.
I'm guessing this is sort of equivalent to manual supersampling rather than combining adjacent (ie visually translated to the next subsquare of the photo) viewpoints? Four hours is a pretty short time for 48 million miles of distance.
Edit: well considering orbital velocity I guess they probably just zigzag'd perpendicular to the orbital plane?
I will be avoiding looking at them directly so I don’t hurt my eyes
Is there no PNG or JPG? A lot of these space photos make nice backgrounds, but they're increasingly being displayed in weird zoomable only on a web page galleries
Displaying this would be a fun use of the Las Vegas Sphere.
"Resolution" is used very loosely here. They are very big images of the full Sun (in terms of the number of pixels), but there are also various telescopes that "zoom in" much more on a small part of the Sun, resulting in images with much higher details than the ones from this article.
How crazy is it that sun spots look like skin cancer, or skin cancer looks like sun spots.
I just found these videos by the Solar Orbiter, insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L00J3hZCdFs
I’m astounded by how plain and round the visible light images are. Why is the corona only visible in the UV images, if it is, according to the article, visible from earth?
it’s wild that we have all this data but we don’t really know what any of this stuff actually is (celestial bodies overall not just the sun) only what radiations they give off that we can read and recognize, for all we know stars are the outer shell of a multidimensional being and the heat is just an effect of us not being able to ascend dimensionally in order to pass into it because it’s “above” spacetime and attempting to pass through means transcending into an eternal realm which we of course would be vaporized because our matter is in this dimension, or it could be (insert anything, we may never know!)
Every time I learn something new about the Sun or see photos like this it makes sense we used to worship it (and maybe we should bring that back.)
How do they picture the magnetic field from far away like this? I would have thought that the probe can only sense the local field.
Cool. BTW, the sun shines white, not yellow.
Sunspots and the visible dynamics around them are always so mesmerizing
> Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s entire surface
Did the probe revolves around sun ?
I thought it would be cool as a wallpaper so I added a bit of blur to it, pretty fun: https://photoshop.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:1779ee13-d89c-...
"Surface" is quite a bit of statement.
Yep, it's a big orange ball.
I thought Sol was basically white? very yellow/orange in the left-most image.
Great balls of fire!
This is great and all, but they are just snapshots in time. We need total 360 degree coverage of the sun 24/7. Stereo A and B did this great, but when Stereo B failed, it was never replaced.
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