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SOHO Produces Images of Sunspot Interiors

Posted by michael on from the ride-the-light dept.

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!"

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  1. APOD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hmmm, just finished checking APOD.
    http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
    Load /. and this is the latest "news" go figure.

    Check out a real astronomy site if you want real, consistent astronomy.

  2. MSNBC Coverage by Angry+Black+Man · · Score: 3, Interesting

    MSNBC also has a story with more pictures as well as a video right over here. A pretty well written article (If not as in-dept as the stanford one) and the video interview is pretty interesting.

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