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Dark Sun Sizzling

Explore today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: a stunning false-color image of the Sun revealing solar corona activity.

Written bySean Carroll
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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day:

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It's a false-color image of the Sun in ultraviolet (click for better resolution). Put together using data from TRACE, a NASA Small Explorer satellite. You're seeing the bubbling gas of the solar corona looping along magnetic fields.

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