rhamphotheca: Seeing a Solar Flare  image courtesy SDO/NASA  A composite picture from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the January 19, 2012, solar flare erupting from the sun. The picture includes data from multiple wavelengths of ultraviolet light, to represent the different layers of the sun’s turbulent atmosphere. (via: National Geo)

rhamphotheca:

Seeing a Solar Flare 

image courtesy SDO/NASA 

A composite picture from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the January 19, 2012, solar flare erupting from the sun. The picture includes data from multiple wavelengths of ultraviolet light, to represent the different layers of the sun’s turbulent atmosphere.

(via: National Geo)

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rhamphotheca: Seeing a Solar Flare  image courtesy SDO/NASA  A composite picture from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the January 19, 2012, solar flare erupting from the sun. The picture includes data from multiple wavelengths of ultraviolet light, to represent the different layers of the sun’s turbulent atmosphere. (via: National Geo)
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