The Sun-spectacular new photo

[Furryanimal]

Released today by NASA.Taken halfway to the Sun

 

[Pepper]

Yes, I saw this amazing, beautiful sight on TV. WOW!

 

[Aunt Marg]

What a spectacle that is!

I missed my calling... should have become an Astronomer.

 

[RadishRose]

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...first-data-snaps-closest-pictures-of-the-sun/

 

[Em in Ohio]

I wonder if the darker areas indicate cooler areas? This may be an erroneous assumption... perhaps they are solar dust clouds? Don't know. /-;

https://www.esa.int/Science_Explora...Orbiter_s_first_view_of_the_Sun_image_gallery

 

[Em in Ohio]

Released today by NASA.Taken halfway to the Sun

Your post got me into researching answers to my questions, and my 'theories' were okay. I also found this image that raised another question in my mind...

Looking in the upper right corner, there seems to be a very dense (almost solid) looking mass... Again, I have no idea what caused this effect. But, it does appear to be solid enough to obscure the coronal flare behind it. Any ideas?

• X-rays stream off the sun in this image showing observations from by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The NuSTAR data, seen in green and blue, reveal solar high-energy emission (green shows energies between 2 and 3 kiloelectron volts, and blue shows energies between 3 and 5 kiloelectron volts).