Friday, March 16, 2012

Astronomy Picture of the Day

This is a photo of the a sunspot in hydrogen alpha light. These guys are magnetically wild areas of the sun which sometimes explode into giant solar flares, one hypothesis on how the Mayan end of the world prophecy will come to pass....but, until they get really big, mostly just bad for people that are outside the atmosphere of Earth

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120314.html

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