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Sharpest view of the Sun
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This is truly remarkable; I have never seen anything like it before!
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/20f14035-63bb-4bc6-8810-4d31fc2f8572/D9DB5269-1BFB-438C-8D08-4D4813083C7A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021114.html" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021114.html" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021114.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/60EA18FC-0305-405C-A83C-1D14668F98E9" alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021114.html"><CENTER> <B> The Sharpest View of the Sun </B> <B> Credit: </B> <A href="http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/NatureNov2002/ telescope_eng.html">SST</A>, <A href="http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/">Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences</A> </CENTER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021114.html"><B> Explanation: </B> This stunning image shows remarkable and mysterious details near the dark central region of a planet-sized <A href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/sunspots/">sunspot</A> in one of <A href="http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/">the sharpest views ever</A> of the surface <A href="http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/default.htm">of the Sun</A>. <A href="http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/NatureNov2002/ press_images_eng.html">Just released</A>, the picture was made using the <A href="http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/NatureNov2002/ telescope_eng.html" set="yes">Swedish Solar Telescope</A> now in its first year of operation on the Canary Island <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020819.html">of La Palma</A>. Along with features described as hairs and canals are dark cores visible within the bright filaments that extend into the sunspot, representing previously unknown and unexplored <A href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/ 18jan_solarback.htm">solar phenomena</A>. The filaments' newly revealed dark cores are seen to be thousands of kilometers long but only about 100 kilometers wide.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021114.html">Resolving features 100 kilometers wide or less is a milestone in <A href="http://solar-center.stanford.edu/folklore/ folklore.html">solar</A> astronomy and has been achieved here using sophisticated adaptive optics, digital image stacking, and processing techniques to counter the <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000725.html" set="yes">blurring</A> effect of Earth's atmosphere.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D9DB5269-1BFB-438C-8D08-4D4813083C7A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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