{"id":908,"date":"2012-03-15T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/the-beautiful-surface-of-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2012-03-15T23:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:37:00","slug":"the-beautiful-surface-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/the-beautiful-surface-of-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"The beautiful surface of the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Ooooooohh. -egg]<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/Dp7opVXFm6Y\/the-beautiful-surface-of-the-s.html\">The beautiful surface of the Sun<\/a>: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sun.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sun-600x457.jpg?resize=600%2C457\" title=\"sun\" width=\"600\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2012\/03\/15\/the-suns-angry-red-spot\/\">Phil Plait linked to this amazing photo of the Sun on the Bad Astronomy blog today<\/a>. It&#8217;s incredible. Like nothing I&#8217;ve ever seen before. The photographer is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avertedimagination.com\/\"> Alan Friedman<\/a>. Plait explains how Friedman got this look, which is a very nice reminder that space photography is seldom really about &#8220;point and click&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alan uses an H\u03b1 filter, which cuts out almost all the light from the Sun except for a narrow slice of color emitted by warm hydrogen. This reduces the glare hugely, and reveals delicate structures in the Sun\u2019s plasma. He then inverts the image, so bright things appear dark, and vice-versa. That\u2019s an old astronomer\u2019s trick that makes fainter things easier to see. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like this close-up? <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2012\/03\/15\/the-suns-angry-red-spot\/\">Go to the Bad Astronomy blog to see Alan Friedman&#8217;s photo of the full Sun<\/a>. Your mind will be blown. I promise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=47164fe7c59ccf26d75be975aec55848&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=47164fe7c59ccf26d75be975aec55848&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/Dp7opVXFm6Y\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Ooooooohh. -egg]The beautiful surface of the Sun: Phil Plait linked to this amazing photo of the Sun on the Bad Astronomy blog today. It&#8217;s incredible. Like nothing I&#8217;ve ever seen before. The photographer is Alan Friedman. Plait explains how Friedman got this look, which is a very nice reminder that space photography is seldom really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-eE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}