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Happy Solstice
Seasons Greetings!
Today the sun reaches its northernmost point in planet Earth's sky marking a season change and the first solstice of the year 2004. In celebration Astronomy Picture of the Day has a detailed, brightly colored image of the active Sun. From the EIT instrument onboard the space-based SOHO observatory, the tantalizing picture is a false-color composite of three images all made in extreme ultraviolet light. Each individual image highlights a different temperature regime in the upper solar atmosphere and was assigned a specific color; red at 2 million, green at 1.5 million, and blue at 1 million degrees C. The combined image shows bright active regions strewn across the solar disk, which would otherwise appear as dark groups of sunspots in visible light images, along with some magnificent plasma loops and an immense prominence at the right hand solar limb.
Posted by mrmule at June 21, 2004 02:35 AM
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