NASA | First Images of the Sun in 3-D

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For the first time ever, NASA has obtained 3-D images of the dynamic churning atmosphere of the sun -- thanks to the two STEREO spacecraft launched in 2006. This new view will greatly aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics and improve space weather forecasting.

This is a stereographic version of the movie. Red/Cyan stereo glasses are required to view it properly.

For more information:
http://www.nasa.gov/stereo

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[HipHopJun]

lolpatrolz, you must be from the south.

[elcaptainkebab]

Fuck England! I'm Welsh. lol

[BrandonTsia]

@snuffy525 They are just extremely dense

[snuffy525]

@BrandonTsia i didn't think there could be any solids at the core, not at 27 million degrees F.

[Soulless99]

@ethicalbro

Fusion of hydrogen and helium if i remember. Thats the reaction that "drives" the sun and radiates energy.

[BrandonTsia]

@smallini All 4. There is actually solid iron and gold in the core of the Sun.

[halomaster22323]

@ethicks00 I did it bitch. Nothing happened to me. Why don't you try it without sunglasses & your eyes will actually melt?

[falcocastillo123]

while NASA was taking pictures of the sun, chuck norris was having his casual 2:00

P.M swim in it...

[ethicalbro]

Does anyone see something wrong here? How can the Sun stay in a plasma state at the same time generate "THERMONUCLEAR" explosions? Where is the fuel coming from?

[WeAreTheRobots]

@kimailis

The center of the Sun is not solid. It's in plasma state, and this permits the nuclear reactions inside. The identity of an element depends solely in the number of protons in the nucleus, and different numbers of neutrons define different isotopes of a given element.

The number of electrons is then irrelevant, and one uses the term "ionisation state" to refer to the number of electrons missing from a neutral version of the atom. Fe I is neutral iron, Fe III is doubly ionized iron.

[WeAreTheRobots]

@smallini

A late answer, but yes, it's a plasma.

In the plasma state, which is similar to a gas, a fraction of the atoms are ionized (this is, with one or more of their electrons dissociated), but these electrons are still part of the whole mixture.