franco_vazza21h ago

Please enjoy this stunning collection of portraits of #solar surface turmoils, #flares and else, all produced by Carlo Casoli's from the University of #Bologna with his own telescope and filters:

https://app.astrobin.com/u/C.Casoli

really really impressive details of magnetic-field driven structures across many scales!

#astronomy #astrophysics #science

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@franco_vazza

How would you take a picture of the sun with the earth in the background from earth?

@jadp

Mar 28 at 9:13amWeb
Show threadfranco_vazza20h ago
@dtm @jadp
😅 the author is very good!!
No he often puts a picture of Earth in the frame only to give a constant scale reference to measure the size of solar flares! This is really telling that such flares are several times larger than our planets.