Sol with solar prominences and surface detail

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By David_Pickles

April 15, 2018 at 8:28 am

David Pickles

Rushden, Northamptonshire

Lunt LS50THa B600 Hydrogen Alpha solar telescope and Altair GPCam 290 mono camera.

This is a composite image, combining the bright surface detail of the Sun with some of the fainter solar prominences.

2018-04-14T00:00:00

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Observations of the Stingray Nebula by the Hubble Space Telescope. Left shows the object as it appeared in 1996. Right shows the object in 2016. Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Balick (University of Washington), M. Guerrero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía), and G. Ramos-Larios (Universidad de Guadalajara)

Eye On The Sky Stingray Nebula fading fast in Hubble images

An image of the Andromeda Galaxy by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.

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