Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Images of the Sun

This link provides a photo of the Sun taken by a radio telescope and shows the sunspots as well as the magnetic fields. 
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~white/images/93nov07_c_r_full.html

This link has a variety of impressive images of features such as solar flares, prominences, eclipses and an animation of the Sun rotating that was taken using several composite images over the course of 6 days from an ultraviolet telescope.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/the_sun.html

Finally this link is from the website for SOHO (The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) and provides a gallary of images of the Sun's corona.
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/SolarCorona/

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