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SOHO Produces Images of Sunspot Interiors
Judebert writes: "The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO, the one that looks at the Sun) has used a Doppler-like device to look underneath the surface of a sunspot. It turns out to be much shallower than expected, but the data does help explain why sunspots last so much longer than theory dictates. NASA's story is more informative, but the pictures and movies at Stanford are spectacular. I've got a new background!"
and Oh Yes, the sounds:
BelowSunspot_rendering.mp3 (3 Meg)
Ever wanted to know what a sunspot sounds like? Now's your chance! Just don't trade it on MusicCity, or Hilary'll get ya!
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Sol is a relatively young sun, no? Could it be that our sun is merely experiencing acne?
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Is it just me or did the sunspot in the animations from the stanford page look like a mandlebrot set?
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Anyone else read this and think, man my small office/home office is *CRAP* compared to some guy who's producing sunspot images!
Maybe it's just me, and I have SOHO inferiority complex.
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Actyally, it's about 5 billion years old, and expected to live another 5 billion; so it's more like middle-aged. So, it's more likely bald spots. Now, if we could only find a star-sized dose of Rogaine . . .
If it's worried about it's age, maybe scientists could find a hot little proto-star.
In no way implying that the sun needs to get laid,
-- If any of the above made sense, I assure it was purely by accident.