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- norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+97Yep: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/Sun_Earth-browse.jpg
- gahal, on 10/12/2007, -5/+94Far better looking than when I try staring at the sun using binoculars.
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -4/+62I swear, it looks just like this big thing in the sky *in real life*. Freaky.
Anyway I made some desktops from this pic and I thought i'd share:
1680x1050 Widescreen: http://www.zwebendesign.com/files/sun_1680.jpg
1280x1024: http://www.zwebendesign.com/files/sun_1280.jpg
Enjoy. - greenbox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+60hm... i don't see the sun carrying 2 scoops of raisins.
- GreenLantern33, on 10/12/2007, -5/+50That is impressive.
That plume shooting ouf of the top left is probably bigger than the earth. - tylerni7, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34That's why I use telescopes... they work much better.
- gahal, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33Yeah, reminds me of how a dog is actually a rock with fur....
What the hell are you talking about? - bnitro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30I always liked the sun
- rebz, on 10/12/2007, -9/+33man, i was blinded by look at this picture!
boy, that is one bright picture!
whew, my network card just got hot downloading that pic!!!
is it just me or did it just get a few degrees hotter in here?
wow, blinded!
(five.) - Scott802, on 10/12/2007, -13/+36The big yellow ones the sun.
- norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24gigs
http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/demo.shtml (not the sun ... but it's big) - Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Hmm. Interesting that this was taken way back in '99. I wonder how large a high-quality image of the sun would be now? Maybe a few hundred megabytes?
- MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Wow, that's incredible. I can't even imagine what that giant fire explosion would look like.
- ziffel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16"I laughed when I saw 'Your mother is a whore' Why bury such comedy gold!"
I didn't bury it, I blocked the user. Permanently. It's doubtful anything intelligent will ever come from someone who just discovered anonymity means "hey neat, I can be an ***** without getting punched in the face!" - wush, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Good thing NASA has bandwidth to burn.
- hobophobe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18That is until our ISPs open up competing space programs and then have reason to degrade NASA's service...... now would be a good time to write your congressman and tell them you want them to enforce net neutrality.*
(*Sorry, I couldn't resist.) - mozillaman0, on 10/12/2007, -19/+33wow -17 diggs in 52 Minutes
- syko21, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Yes look at the sun with a telescope, that will be sure to blind you forever and stop you from making dumb comments. Thats an infrared image, your telescope works on visible light.
- letterten, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15damn. make you realize just how completely and totally small we all are.
- gahal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Strangers: "What happens if a flare shoots in our direction?"
It can mess up communication equipment, but nothing super bad. Despite that the flares are huge, we are so far away that nothing along the lines of scorching the earth would happen.
Stuff like http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000076405 or http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/24/solar.forecast/index.html .
Little from NASA on them, http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/ - echosierratwo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15@mikecampo "Wow, that's incredible. I can't even imagine what that giant fire explosion would look like."
Like the one in the pic? hahahaha! Just kidding. It is an incredible pic for sure. - mozillaman0, on 10/12/2007, -25/+37I swear it looks like something from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
- CoreBurn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12If you find this interesting, NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) site has alot of interesting images & video.
http://trace.lmsal.com/
also The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ - ziffel, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15"A little curious as to why I'm getting negative diggs.."
Probably because this is the most retarded comment system ever devised. Just a guess. Most comments in this system get 0 or negative diggs, so don't feel bad. In most cases it's girlfriend-less geeks trying to get back a tiny modicum of power in their pathetic lives they live out in front of computer monitor. - bdr529, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16why didnt you warn me it was going to be so bright!
- unidentified, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yeah, I've been doing that for a few hours now. Swear I can't see anything.....
- apantomimehorse, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Sun to Earth: "My farts are bigger than you"
- jasqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's a big nuclear explosion, it's not a light bulb.
- Darmichar, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13gahal, I now know what it feels like to shoot Mountain Dew out of my nose.
Thank you. - tylerni7, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Yes everyone knows that stars are just large planets with large fires on them! (That was sarcasm for those of you who didn't catch that)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The northern lights happen. It is also called something else but I do not know how to spell it, ill give it a gander, auroraborialsis
- konspence, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Aurora Borealis,
and also southern lights happen. ;-) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11top right...at least it is here
- EGOvoruhk, on 10/12/2007, -11/+17Ze goggles, zey do nothing!
- regedit2D, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This looks scary for some reason. I don't like relying on something that looks so volatile.
- Zeusandhera, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The point is to show something cool to everyone, not to live by artificial standards.
- procrust1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/bestofsoho/Movies/Action20030605_EIT304/304active.mpg
Its cool seeing a movie. You get a small hint at the energy involved - skaag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If you take a careful look at the bottom right part of the image, you can barely see a satellite. It has a cylindrical shape, and you can see the sun's reflection shining across the cylinder. I know it could be a weird arrangement of pixels but to me it looks like a satellite... :-)
- zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4We should attack it... those large plumes are obviously weapons of mass destruction.
Fire Ze Mizzels!!!... But I am... le tired...
* Disclaimer: This post is only a joke - Strangers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7What happens if a flare shoots in our direction?
- coolguy5, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11hmm.. I wonder how many more lame 'blinding' jokes are going to follow this comment...Such a continuious usage of 'dad' humor.
- sabster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5yes... waste the governments bandwidth muaha
- skaag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Are you saying there weren't satellites back then or that the quality of the sensor makes it unprobable that a satellite would be captured by chance?
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"thats an infrared image, your telescope works on visible light."
actually, according to the description, the photo was taken using ultraviolet light, not infrared.
..but the point remains. if you'd like to blind yourself by looking at the sun through a telescope, that's your (retarded) choice. :-D - norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"If you take a careful look at the bottom right part of the image, you can barely see a satellite. It has a cylindrical shape, and you can see the sun's reflection shining across the cylinder. I know it could be a weird arrangement of pixels but to me it looks like a satellite... :-)"
The picture was taken in 1999 so it's more likely to be a "weird arrangement of pixels". - gahal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Both lines taken from wikipedia, first lines of their respective articles.
"A star is a massive body of plasma in outer space that is currently producing or has produced energy through nuclear fusion."
"A planet is generally considered to be a relatively large mass of accreted matter in orbit around a star."
So a star is a bigass ball of fire, and a planet is a hunk of stuff orbiting a star. Not exactly all that similar, outside of both being made of stuff and in space. - gahal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That may be the case, but I stand by my original comment making fun of ypct. I'm in a smartass mood tonight, rather than one fit for philosophical debate on celestial classification.
I should not have even made that second comment, but there was something enjoyable in calling a star a "bigass ball of fire", and referring planets as "stuff in space". I was thinking of including something about adding something along the lines of lighting a fart in a spaceship and calling it a star, but the joke just fell apart :P - JeffreyAtW, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Why is this image enlarged 2x? If you look closely, you'll see that each pixel is actually a 2-by-2 square. 1050x1017 is only half as impressive! :P
- JeffreyAtW, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Gosh, thinking in two dimensions is difficult.
- aelfrice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Don't say that:
people aren't able to deal with the enormity. Back away everyone. -
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