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more about #solarporn Insomnia Bob: One of these suns gives me super powers. The other, renders me a helpless mortal, like all the rest of you. The question is... WHICH ONE? more » RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch!: Mmmm, they look delicious. more » joetato: Does Andy Warhol have anything to do with this? Hmmmmmm. If these were done by him in 3-D, we could call them Warholograms! more » NerD: Blattella: NASA is the worlds most expensive computer monitor background producer. more » Ruthless, If you let me: Anekanta's avatar multiplied! NASA gives us such nice pictures. more » EBone: So how do you focus a camera on the shuttle AND still get a clear picture of the sun? more » Mount_Prion: Of course the photos made this get stuck in my head: + Watch video more » Grey_Area: "Good new everybody! I've discovered something that will blast theH1N1 virus off the face of the planet!" more » goldfarb: so "solar Katrina" instead of "Solar 9/11"? and the million people without power was because of a winter storm - nothing to do with the sun (in the se... more » WestMantooth: First they were complaining about no sun activity now they are complaining about a Sun Katrina. Get over yourselves scientist. We discredited the heli... more » -
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Welcome Back Sunspots With The Many Colors Of Solar Pop Art
Sunspots have returned at last, after a worryingly dormant solar minimum. To celebrate, here are four current solar pictures from NASA's Solar And Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). They're the sun at 304 Angstrom, 171 Angstrom, 195 Angstrom and 204 Angstrom. -
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Is NASA Acting Out Danny Boyle's Sunshine For Real?
Award-winning space photographer Thierry Legault traveled to Florida to take this picture of the Space Shuttle Atlantis passing in front of the sun. And click through to see Atlantis and Hubble meeting in the sunshine. More » -
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Is This Shockwave Our Only Warning Of A "Solar Katrina"?
Check out the eruption on the left side of this picture — that's a shockwave plowing through the sun's atmosphere. Could this be the early warning sign of a Solar Katrina? More »
