Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/29/the-most-detailed-image-of-the.html
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Wow, needs some sunscreen.
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My God, it’s full of star!
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That’s damn mesmerizing. 
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36,500 kilometers… why don’t we we megameters… 36 and a half megameters.
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They look like a lava lamp covered by those things you get in your teeth eating popcorn
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That ain’t nuthin but a bunch of popcorn kernels at the bottom of a movie theater popcorn popper, or my name isn’t Orville Redenbacher.
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My mom taught me to never stare at the sun, and I’m not gonna start now!
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I hope they remembered to use a filter.
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Behold! Behold my mottled turgid surface, this glorious visage… and think of… dermatologists!
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The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degreesThe sun is hot
The sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on Earth there’d be no light
Without the light it givesWe need its light
We need its heat
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun’s atomic energyThe sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
—They Might Be Giants
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Part of me really wants to spend my next pay on a high-def, high power projector, build that in to the floor and then continously project the sun slowly morphing on the living room ceiling.
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fake news. i know a hot tray of bubbling caramel when i see it.
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when does that kind of image remind you of insects
sorry , i keep finding better descriptions
http://www.leibniz-kis.de/de/projekte/visible-tunable-filter/instrument-description/
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From the telescope’s web site, they apparently didn’t!
Instead, they masked off all but a tiny area of the sun for the camera.
Of course, since the primary mirror is essentially a death ray pointed at the smaller secondary mirror, the secondary mirror has to have a massive water cooling system for the 5% or so of the light it doesn’t reflect…
Then, since the secondary mirror is now essentially a tightly focused death ray pointing at the mask, the mask has to have a massive water cooling system as well!
Solar telescopes use a very narrow band filter in front of the camera to be able to see those plasma features. Didn’t see whether that also has water cooling!
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