To piggy-back onto the last post, today actually marks the one-year anniversary of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory beginning the imaging phase of it's mission. This is the absolute most sophisticated space-based solar observation instrument that human beings have been able to construct. The image quality is 10X that of an HD television camera, allowing us to see in vivid detail the supremely powerful, yet elegant forces at work on the star surface.
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