“Happy Halloween!” – The Sun 🎃
This image blends together two sets of wavelengths at 171 and 193 angstroms, typically colorized in gold and yellow, to create a particularly Halloween-like appearance. The active regions on the sun appear brighter because those are areas that emit more light and energy — markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona.
Image Credit: NASA/Glenn Space Flight Center/Solar Dynamics Observatory
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