Sunday, September 8, 2013

Sunspots


Whoa!

Just read that sunspots are not black.



They only appear that way in photographs of the sun due to the contrast with the much hotter and therefore brighter surrounding regions of the solar surface.

In actuality, sunspots are bright as the full moon.


Source: The Astronomer’s Universe, by Herbert Friedman

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