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Description Highest resolution photo of Sun (NSF) as of January 20, 2020.jpg. English: This image at the time of publication is the highest resolution image of the sun's surface ever taken, at 789 nanometers (nm). Features as small as 30km (18 miles) in size are observable for the first time. The image shows a pattern of turbulence of solar ...
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Magnificent CME Erupts on the Sun - August 31: Image title: On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second.
English: Sun's Path Around the Milky Way. An illustration showing the path of the Sun, Earth and Moon around the Milky Way. The inclinations of the Ecliptic Plane and Celestial Equator are shown with respect to the Galactic North Pole and Galactic Plane. The inclination of the moon's orbit is shown relative to the Ecliptic Plane.
English: On August 1, 2010, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. This image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory of the news-making solar event on August 1 shows the C3-class solar flare (white area on upper left), a solar tsunami (wave-like structure, upper right), multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale shaking of ...
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Download QR code; Appearance. ... MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. ... The sun disk of the god Ra is raised into the sky by an ankh ...