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Sunspot Photo is Most Detailed Ever
techvert ^
| August 25, 2010
| Kurt Black
Posted on 08/28/2010 3:24:03 PM PDT by EveningStar
A new image taken by NJIT Distinguished Professor Philip R. Goode and the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) team is the most detailed sunspot photo yet.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; science; sunspot
To: EveningStar
I had one of those on my nose once.
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:25:21 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(Anita Bryant was right.)
To: EveningStar
And here I was just thinking that my job was as close to hell as I ever wanted to get.
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:25:39 PM PDT
by
diverteach
(D.C. has become Jonestown.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:25:40 PM PDT
by
freebilly
(No wonder the left has a boner for Obama. There's CIALIS in soCIALISt....)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:27:30 PM PDT
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: sig226; KevinDavis
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:27:33 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
(Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
To: EveningStar
I was thinking more like a planet. venus? mars? uranus? not sure.
To: EveningStar
Van Gogh did it first...

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posted on
08/28/2010 3:30:27 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: EveningStar
Magnificent!
Looks like the sun has a case of “floppy iris”.
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:30:29 PM PDT
by
Ole Okie
To: EveningStar
That's some pretty serious "pucker factor" happening there.
Way cool photo, wow!
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:30:46 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:32:25 PM PDT
by
Palter
(If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ~ Mark Twain)
To: EveningStar
Could someone please photoshop Ted Kennedy’s face into the dark area?
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:35:45 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:35:54 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: EveningStar
I once knew of a couple of small beings that had to return a ring near something like that.
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:35:54 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
(Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
To: EveningStar
That’s just Mr Sun making his “O” face right before he blows out the candles...with 100 MILLION HYDROGEN BOMBS! O noes!
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:36:54 PM PDT
by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:41:25 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
(Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
To: EveningStar
No offense to the most important celestial object in the sky but ... the sun is bizarre!
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:43:25 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
To: EveningStar
Kind of reminds me of my cat as he walks away.
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:45:45 PM PDT
by
D_Idaho
("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
To: EveningStar
Gonna need a whole lot!
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:46:21 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:46:50 PM PDT
by
pillut48
("Now is the time that tries men's souls...")
To: Sender

100 MILLION HYDROGEN BOMBS!
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:47:16 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: EveningStar
I think I have one of those on my backside, but I’m not sure because I can’t see it very well. :)
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:47:29 PM PDT
by
Mister Da
(The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
To: COBOL2Java; Mister Da; D_Idaho
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posted on
08/28/2010 3:51:38 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
To: fwdude
I usually get one on the inside of my cheek and sometimes on my bottom lip at least once a year.
To: EveningStar
Proctologist: bend over Mr. President....this wont hurt a bit....
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posted on
08/28/2010 4:03:13 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: EveningStar
I seen that thingy in van gogh paintings
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posted on
08/28/2010 4:11:27 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: Palter
I love this episode....the doomsday manicotti (machine) that eats the Constellation.....

Dont you think I know that There was but not anymore
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posted on
08/28/2010 4:13:29 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Vaquero
I love how he delivers that line..
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posted on
08/28/2010 5:24:43 PM PDT
by
Mmogamer
(I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
To: EveningStar
Is it hot in here, or is it just me?
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posted on
08/28/2010 5:35:45 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: JRios1968
The vagina eye of Saurus!
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posted on
08/28/2010 5:40:44 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Many wonder why we don't have flying cars in 2010. I ask, "Where's my frikken Unicorn, FUBO?")
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
“Saurus”....you need to get out more...
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posted on
08/28/2010 6:24:02 PM PDT
by
AndrewB
(FUBO)
To: driftdiver

It is a delicious thought, isn't it Muttley? Where's my doctor?!?
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posted on
08/28/2010 7:27:37 PM PDT
by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
Thanks EveningStar. Didn't Jabba the Hutt try to throw Luke Skywalker into this?
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posted on
08/29/2010 6:10:39 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: Farmer Dean
I'm still learnig how to do this. But hey, I don't want Ted to look too good...
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posted on
08/29/2010 7:29:14 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(Do turtles get the runs?)
To: darkwing104
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posted on
08/29/2010 8:12:44 PM PDT
by
Quix
(C THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
To: bigheadfred
He never looked better to me.
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posted on
08/30/2010 9:45:32 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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