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Solar Spicules

Enough about politics! Astronomy Picture of the Day graces us with this amazing picture of solar flux tubes, or "spicules" on the surface of the sun:

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Posted by Andrew on November 02, 2008 at 08:52 PM in Science |

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Actually, I thought Ralph's comment was easily one of the most elegantly philosophical this blog has ever seen, and was grateful for that. Thank you, Ralph!

Posted by: Andrew | November 04, 2008 at 03:58 PM

Please, it's a convention on this blog to not comment on things like this. You're breaking the rules.

Posted by: Aaron Strontsman | November 04, 2008 at 02:31 PM

We take the sun for granted without realizing how dependent we are on it, not only for light and warmth but also in less obvious ways as shown in this photograph.

Occasional, angry eruptions of charged particles in the chromosphere are spewed out by the sun and travel to earth, causing many geophysical effects in their interaction with our upper atmosphere, such as magnetic storms, auroral displays, and disruptions of electronic communication.

Though hard to understand and a cause of annoyance, these odd disturbances are transitory, and we are largely protected from their unstable manifestations by the vast distance they must traverse.

Posted by: Ralph Noble | November 03, 2008 at 09:50 AM

Uh ... you do NOT consider the photographs of STEINMEIER as mysterious as solar flux tubes?! How strange.

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Posted by: Jeffrey -- New York | November 02, 2008 at 09:23 PM

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