[Over the past few weeks, I've collected a metric ton of cool pictures to post, but somehow have never gotten around to actually posting them. Sometimes I was too busy, sometimes too lazy, sometimes they just fell by the wayside... but I decided my computer's desktop was getting cluttered, and I'll never clean it up without some sort of incentive. I've therefore made a pact with myself to post one of the pictures with an abbreviated description every day until they're gone, thus cleaning up my desktop, showing you neat and/or beautiful pictures, and making me feel better about my work habits. Enjoy.]
Sometimes, what you see depends on how you see it.
For example, take the Sun. Imagine it as a ball of ionized gas 1.4 million kilometers in diameter, churning and roiling, with intense magnetic fields piercing its surface and causing vast eruptions of material 150,000 km across.
OK, you don’t have to imagine that, since a) that’s the way the Sun really is, and 2) I can show you a picture of it! Like this one, from astrophotographer Ted Wolfe:
That shows the Sun as it was on ...
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DiscoverMag/~3/hQNk94wwUdM/
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