Astronomy Pic of the Day

[Pessimism]

APOD: 2006 December 4 - Movie: The Active Sun

Check that out, a nice video of our sun; some of the best quality I have fucking seen.

Any thoughts?

 

[Valerie]

"Fire!!!"

 

[Uladyne]

That is pretty cool. There was a documentary on the sun a couple days ago on the Science channel. Cool stuff. I'm a nerd.

 

[Astrum]

Cool shit.

 

[Pessimism]

Each one of those wisps that came off the sun were easily 5-10x bigger than earth...and the speed it was moving!

 

[Taliesin]

I found this a couple of days ago, a really cool program. It's probably best for people who have a telescope, too, which very unfortunately I dont, but it's still pretty cool anyway

 

[IdolWarship]

URANUS IS HUGE!

 

[rrjii2000]

Cool Thread! I'm actually persuing my Masters in Astronomy.

Cool Astronomy Fact of the day: Over 200 extra solar planets have been found to date. These are actual planets that are orbiting other stars. A recent find was a 4 planet system around the star Pollux. !! Imagine the possibilities !!


Here is a picture of Comet Hale-Bopp that I took just a few days before it's closest approach in 1997.

 

[Pђoenix]

^sweet picture, I find astronomy quite fascinating but that fact was just too far