[GZG] Pictures of the surface of the sun

Okay, ignore the site this is posted on... the pic is from the Swedish Solar
Telescope.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/surface-of-the-sun-photo_n_5457
02.html

Note that some of these rising plasma columns have dimensions of
1000-2000 km in length or width!

This might inform how some of you purists decide to paint your model
suns.... :0)

I'm really also looking forward to some of the imagery they are currently
working on from the odd radio jet emitter they've found in M82. They think it
might be a new class of black hole they've never seen, given the size and
speed of what they think is the accretion disk. Those should come out sometime
later in the year I think.

Space has so many mysteries and we're like ants trying to observe the sparrow
looking through a straw..... a good straw, but still just a straw. The things
we want to look at are so far away in space and time and would probably be
more than a little dangerous to get close to anyway.... but oh boy, are they
interesting!

If Hubble isn't among the top 10 inventions of the last century, people have
no sense of the poetic.

TomB