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.)
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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grues-dinner
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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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?
dukeofdoom
How crazy is it that sun spots look like skin cancer, or skin cancer looks like sun spots.
User23
Displaying this would be a fun use of the Las Vegas Sphere.
casenmgreen
I thought Sol was basically white? very yellow/orange in the left-most image.
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lumb63
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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hulitu
> Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s entire surface
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)
Actual zoomable images here: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_...
Best looking image ever captured of the Sun's entire surface goes to:
https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1638648459002806272
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Andrew McCarthy: https://www.instagram.com/cosmic_background/
Jason Guenzel: https://www.instagram.com/thevastreaches/
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.)
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
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.
> 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?
How crazy is it that sun spots look like skin cancer, or skin cancer looks like sun spots.
Displaying this would be a fun use of the Las Vegas Sphere.
I thought Sol was basically white? very yellow/orange in the left-most image.
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?
> Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s entire surface
Did the probe revolves around sun ?