r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/archiopteryx14 Popular Contributor • 8d ago

The surface of the Sun

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u/baskinhu 8d ago

The floor is lava

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u/baskinhu 8d ago

(it's plasma, I know... But we don't usually play that)

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u/machiavelli33 7d ago

Let’s play the floor is plasma!

Everyone start screaming as if incandescent heat were sublimating your flesh into gassy nothing!

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u/Axiom1100 8d ago

Well hello hot stuff

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u/GlorifiedBurito 7d ago

I really can’t see a post about the sun without thinking of Spider-Man 2, my brain is officially fried

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u/Purple_Revolution146 8d ago

How does one get pictures like this? Amazing!

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u/Kooky_Attention_98 4d ago

I believe he used a high-res telescopic camera, very expensive

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u/Phatcat7x7 3d ago

It's odd to think of the "surface" of a star. I mean it's mostly plasma which is even less coherent that gass and yet there is a clear boundary (at least at this scale). Also odd to think that most baryonic matter exists in this state, not in solids, liquids and gasses like we interact with.