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Post by BMAONE23 » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:00 pm

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... _f1800.jpg

If you look at the image just right, it looks like a large heavy black ball lying on a white sheet on a soft bed.

Gravity Well anyone???
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magnetic field compass point exits

Post by kovil » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:20 pm

I sure do like how the magnetic field shows !!

The interaction of the fields and the particles has a complexity of beauty about it that inspires the mind to rapture.
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Post by makc » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:32 pm

I wonder what are those red things.
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Post by Martin » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:59 pm

They are solar flares?
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Post by Qev » Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:27 pm

Yup! Though they're called 'prominences' when they're extending from the limb of the Sun like that. Kinda silly that they're given different names depending on what angle you view them from... but hey, that's astronomy. :lol:
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