Astronomy Picture of the Day

The Iron Sun


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#49904 by @ 26.09.2004 00:00 - nach oben -
The Iron Sun

Explanation: The ultraviolet light emitted by eleven times ionized iron at temperatures over 2 million degrees Farenheit was used to record the above picture of the Sun on September 22, 2001, the date of that year's autumnal equinox. The image was made by the EIT camera onboard the SOHO spacecraft, a space observatory which can continuously observe the Sun. Eleven times ionized iron is atomic iron with eleven of its electrons stripped away. Here the electrons are stripped by the frantic collisions with other atoms and electrons which occur at the extreme temperatures in the Solar Corona. Since electrons are negatively charged, the resulting ionized iron atom is highly positively charged. Astronomer's "shorthand" for eleven times ionized iron is written "Fe XII", the chemical symbol for iron followed by a Roman numeral 12 (Fe I is neutral iron).

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#49905 by @ 26.09.2004 02:25 - nach oben -
isch jo vom finste.
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#49906 by @ 26.09.2004 10:39 - nach oben -
SOHO Spacecraft? WTF?
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#50019 by @ 26.09.2004 21:05 - nach oben -
SOHO: SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory
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#49907 by @ 26.09.2004 11:07 - nach oben -
elend
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#52978 by @ 14.10.2004 14:14 - nach oben -
Gits da Züg au in Wallpaper-Uflösig irgendwo?
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#52979 by @ 14.10.2004 14:25 - nach oben -
jo dä oberscht link isch amigs d'BIG version dävo...isch aber au nöd immer gad ä fetti uflösig
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#52981 by @ 14.10.2004 14:27 - nach oben -
datt bild hier sieht v.a. jenes gerastert aus... v.a. in der big-version.