Starship Asterisk*

Apologise if this somehow is a Gigantic Post--not clear to me how to respond to an individual post. It was dispiriting to follow up the link given by Astro Mark (in the discussion of this APOD) to a previous APOD which I had much enjoyed and which is asserted to be a montage which, in my perspective...

Astonishing !! !!

From my non-astronomer/non-scientist point of view, I must presume (given the clarity of today's APOD) that the almost infinite orders of magnitude greater cost for other platforms must in some manner provide significantly greater information.

I *hope* so.

Hopefully someone can clear up some sun confusions for me... ...My understanding is that the storms move from left to right basically parallel to the solar equator? So why the above difference in location between the images—was the telescope simply rotated? Also, expect this to be a another gobsmac...

Amazing photograph! How was this taken? Was it from a space platform, an observatory, or from a portable ground based telescope? This latter seems quite improbable; however, I did follow the link to the photographer's website (where could not find this image) and his other images do seem to be made ...

Hopefully someone can clear up some sun confusions for me. Today's APOD shows AR-3664 towards the BOTTOM of the solar disk. That of May 11 showed this cluster to be towards the RIGHT. Does the apparent orientation of the sun shift from day to day? My understanding is that the storms move from left t...