The SUN

[Vehemence]

Was hoping this thread would be about pics of The Sun's Page 3 girls.

 

[glenn beck]

hmmm wonder what this pic could be photoshopped as

http://cache.boston.com/univer...re/sol_10_13/sol07.jpg

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: glenn beck
hmmm wonder what this pic could be photoshopped as

http://cache.boston.com/univer...re/sol_10_13/sol07.jpg

rofl, you just had to go there didn't you?

 

[effowe]

Boston.com always has some really impressive photo sets. Check their archives for the awesome.

 

[Q]

That's not real, the sun is yellow

 

[PeanutButter]

Originally posted by: Kirby64

Originally posted by: Aflac
fucking awesome. it's incredible when you think about exactly how massive the sun is and how huge these disturbances are relative to the earth.

I agree... but even harder to wrap you mind around is some of the stars out there that are INCREDIBLY huge compared to even our sun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBz1l0aU3WQ


These were some awesome photos. Really liked 1, 5, 11, 14, 17, and 21.

Anyone notice the creature thing in 16? Like some sort of demon? I'm crazy?

 

[EGGO]

Man, just imagine how Antares would be like. That star would swallow our solar system, I think. Amazing pictures.

 

[hellokeith]

:thumbsup:

 

[So]

:music: The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a giant nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees...

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: glenn beck
hmmm wonder what this pic could be photoshopped as

http://cache.boston.com/univer...re/sol_10_13/sol07.jpg

solar system's largest goat**

 

[Tiamat]

wow, some of these are really friggen cool! pic 11 is pretty

 

[MrWizzard]

It's only a matter of time till "scientists" blame the suns calm on global warming...

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Looks tasty

 

[manowar821]

It's our little star! Awwwww...

Thanks OP, awesome pictures.

 

[alchemize]

Amazing.

OK I need to convert the animated gif into a forum avatar

 

[StevenYoo]

definitely my favorite planet

 

[m1ldslide1]

These are stunning. Thanks very much for posting! :thumbsup:

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: Quintox
That's not real, the sun is yellow

It's really lacking color, it just outputs certain wavelengths and the coronosphere and/or photosphere absorbs a good amount of the wavelengths that we don't see. That and the temperature correlates with the appearance iirc. on second thought, maybe it actually IS yellow... shit now I forgot my astronomy - because it outputs primarily in the visible spectrum. hmmm


I want a blue sun. That'd be wicked.
I wonder if life has sprung up on planets orbiting stars that output mainly in other spectrums of electromagnetic radiation, and have eyes that see those frequencies, whereas our eyes have adjusted to see only the 'visible' light spectrum.
That'd be crazy weird to visit a planet like that and make friends/enemies with those creatures, we'd need some kind of fancy goggle system to even SEE, and oh, likely protect our eyes from getting fried. What if it was an X-ray star? We'd land and immediately die of overexposure unless wearing super suits made of lead.

Originally posted by: PeanutButter
Anyone notice the creature thing in 16? Like some sort of demon? I'm crazy?

Demon? Nah, that's just Ra, our Sun god. He's gonna hurl an epic flaming death our way soon since we're worshiping the wrong god - Ra can't be happy.




and btw, pictures are great.
NASA had some great photos and I think some videos from the STEREO imaging project.

 

[SlickSnake]

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
It's only a matter of time till "scientists" blame the suns calm on global cooling...

Fixed. And linked Ice Age NOW!

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: destrekor
...
I want a blue sun. That'd be wicked.
I wonder if life has sprung up on planets orbiting stars that output mainly in other spectrums of electromagnetic radiation, and have eyes that see those frequencies, whereas our eyes have adjusted to see only the 'visible' light spectrum.
That'd be crazy weird to visit a planet like that and make friends/enemies with those creatures, we'd need some kind of fancy goggle system to even SEE, and oh, likely protect our eyes from getting fried. What if it was an X-ray star? We'd land and immediately die of overexposure unless wearing super suits made of lead.

Other stars would almost certainly have different spectrums than our own, and there are stars out there that output X-rays. (I wish those things had been discovered in a time when "X" wasn't in-vogue. Though now we'd have i-rays, so I guess "X" is tolerable.)

And hell, if that puny layer of ozone were gone, the Sun would suddenly become a great UV-based sterilizer. Of course, had the ozone never been there, life would have adapted to resist it.

 

[Jawo]

Amazing pictures of the sun!