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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Ultraviolet Eclipse

This might be the coolest thing you'll see all day. It's a NASA image of our sun seen in "four wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light." Even cooler: The short video includes an eclipse with the moon traveling between the camera and the sun as a small black disk.
From the story:
"The images have an alien quality," notes [STEREO program scientist] Guhathakurta. "It's not just the strange colors of the sun. Look at the size of the Moon; it's very odd." When we observe a lunar transit from Earth, the Moon appears to be the same size as the sun—a coincidence that produces intoxicatingly beautiful solar eclipses. The silhouette STEREO-B saw, on the other hand, was only a fraction of the sun's diameter. "It's like being in the wrong solar system."
Check out the story and video. Seriously amazing. Even in ultraviolet, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." (Psalm 19:1)

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