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Originally Posted by skaltezon
That's too much zooming. I'm looking for objects, processes and energies that lie beyond our planet's atmosphere, please.
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Okay, I'll zoom out a little.
Solar flares. I like those. I remember when I first realized that our sun is a star similar to all the other stars we see in the universe, and the sun isn't particularly "friendly" or "happy." It looks so benign and warm, albeit very bright, to our naked eye from our vantage point, but what is really going on in that massive, seething fusion-ball is this:
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Here's a more recent, closer look from a rocket telescope. "Close-up images reveal an active surface with coronal loops emerging and disappearing all over the Sun's surface and can span a length of about 250,000 miles, or about 30 times the diameter of Earth."
Rocket telescope gets closest look at the Sun
