NASA SDO - Transit of Venus, 193 Angstrom

AIA 193: This channel highlights the outer atmosphere of the Sun -- called the corona -- as well as hot flare plasma. Hot active regions, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections will appear bright here. The dark areas -- called coronal holes -- are places where very little radiation is emitted, yet are the main source of solar wind particles.

Where: Corona and hot flare plasma
Wavelength: 193 angstroms (0.0000000193 m) = Extreme Ultraviolet
Primary ions seen: 11 times ionized iron (Fe XII)
Characteristic temperature: 1.25 million K (2.25 million ˚F)

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[RosanneGP]

I wrote a book called Key West: Transit of Venus, so am always interested in seeing images of this event -- my book referenced the earlier transit in 2005.

[eerreerr9]

سبحان الله

[mmmtfff]

سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم

[علي بن أحمد الشهري]

سبحان ربنا الواحد الأحد الخالق العظيم

[u1i1616]

سبحان الله

[badrfs]

who creat this perfection ! hes allah ..

[NOUF K]

Sobhan Allah !

[Kevin Brooks]

fucking cloudy in ohio, wish i coulda seen it i almost lost my job damn clouds

lol

[BalzaClem]

Awesome!!!