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Cool Astronomical photo

The sun has been very quiet for the last couple of months so the observers at the French Pic du Midi de Bigorre Solar Observatory have just been hanging out taking cool photographs. Thanks to SpaceWeather for the link to this one:
Click for larger image This is a composite shot. With the second image, the jet is off-screen to the right and the thing that looks like a a solar prominence is actually an artifact from the turbulence of the jet's contrail. Posted by DaveH at November 19, 2007 9:57 PM