NationStates Jolt Archive


Astronomy Pic of the Day....(as its the Summer Solstice.....

Vonners
20-06-2004, 18:50
tomorrow)

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0212/sun3col_thompsoneit_big.jpg

Solstice Celebration
Credit: SOHO - EIT Consortium, ESA, NASA

Explanation: Season's greetings! Today or tomorrow, depending on your time zone, the Sun reaches its northernmost point in planet Earth's sky marking a season change and the first solstice of the year 2004. In celebration, consider this delightfully detailed, brightly colored image of the active Sun. From the EIT instrument onboard the space-based SOHO observatory, the tantalizing picture is a false-color composite of three images all made in extreme ultraviolet light. Each individual image highlights a different temperature regime in the upper solar atmosphere and was assigned a specific color; red at 2 million, green at 1.5 million, and blue at 1 million degrees C. The combined image shows bright active regions strewn across the solar disk, which would otherwise appear as dark groups of sunspots in visible light images, along with some magnificent plasma loops and an immense prominence at the right hand solar limb.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Super American VX Man
20-06-2004, 18:53
Amazing.
20-06-2004, 18:53
Does it really count as astronomy if its in a Non Visible spectrum?
Vonners
20-06-2004, 18:55
Does it really count as astronomy if its in a Non Visible spectrum?

you bet your mass spectrometer it does :)
Spoffin
20-06-2004, 18:57
In Britain, is the solstice today or tommorow?
Vonners
20-06-2004, 18:59
In Britain, is the solstice today or tommorow?

Tomorrow for us....

Sadly can't get to Stonehenge yet again :((((
Spoffin
20-06-2004, 19:14
In Britain, is the solstice today or tommorow?

Tomorrow for us....

Sadly can't get to Stonehenge yet again :((((So, its tommorow night thats the shortest one of the year? I might stay up all night and watch the sunset and the sunrise then.
Vonners
20-06-2004, 20:22
In Britain, is the solstice today or tommorow?

Tomorrow for us....

Sadly can't get to Stonehenge yet again :((((So, its tommorow night thats the shortest one of the year? I might stay up all night and watch the sunset and the sunrise then.

So I understand....but you are not in the UK are you??
SilverCities
20-06-2004, 20:30
My son was a solstice baby! Love celebrating it with extra meaning every year :D
Vonners
20-06-2004, 20:35
My son was a solstice baby! Love celebrating it with extra meaning every year :D

! thats soo cool!
SilverCities
20-06-2004, 20:46
thank you!! 8) He will be ten this year :D
Vonners
20-06-2004, 21:05
thank you!! 8) He will be ten this year :D

Happy birthday!

I'm not one who waxes lyrical about spirituality but he's a lucky lad to have been born on the Solstice....