Friday, May 29, 2009

the sun: right now!

in case youre wondering, this is what the sun looks like right now in the ultraviolet as imaged by the SOHO telescope.


it looks like a round prominence recently broke around the 4 o'clock angle, but otherwise things are pretty calm right now.

get updated images of the sun at anytime here!

3 comments:

Big Mark 243 said...

This is an absolutely amazing photo!!

Nikky said...

stunning!

Billy said...

Wow! Amazing!

[and I love that it was taken on my birthday, almost at the hour I was born..]