Pick a Postcard - Sun


This is an X-ray image of the Sun from the Yohkoh satellite.

This is a region around a sunspot.
Lockheed Palo Alto Research

This is an image of Red Corona around the Sun.
NASA

This is an X-ray image of the sun taken with the Soft X-Ray Telescope (SXT) on the orbiting Yohkoh satellite.
Lockheed Palo Alto Research

This is an image of a solar eclipse in 1994. The image was taken by the Newkirk White Light Coronal camera.
Image courtesy NCAR's High Altitude Observatory.

This is an image of an eclipse
Aris Multimedia Entertainment, Inc. 1994

This is an image of the Sun's corona.
The Sacramento Peak Observatory

This is an image of a solar flare.
The Sacramento Peak Observatory

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