{"id":127217,"date":"2020-02-02T13:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T13:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=127217"},"modified":"2020-02-02T13:01:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T13:01:57","slug":"heres-what-the-suns-surface-looks-like-and-its-so-confusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=127217","title":{"rendered":"Here&#039;s what the sun&#039;s surface looks like and it&#039;s so confusing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- m -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5751019935\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"id_text\">\n<p>As humans, we&#8217;re constantly discovering more and more about our solar system and the planets around us. There&#8217;s so much to learn that we couldn&#8217;t possibly even imagine. Something <strong>none<\/strong> of us could have imagined? The sun is made of caramel popcorn.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, not exactly but it sure as heck looks like it!<\/p>\n<p>The National Science Foundation recently uploaded images of the sun&#8217;s surface &#8211; in the highest definition they&#8217;ve ever been. NSF wrote in a statement that these images show the \u201cturbulent\u201d movement of the plasma amid an array of cell-like structures. Fun fact, each of these &#8220;bubbles&#8221; are actually each about the size of Texas (twice the size of the entire United Kingdom).<\/p>\n<h3>And, it&#8217;s kind of creepy to look at<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This video is composed of the highest-resolution images of the sun\u2019s surface ever taken. Each of the bubblelike granules of convecting plasma seen here are roughly the size of Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HTBxSot94Z\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/HTBxSot94Z<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dUsARLqHbI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dUsARLqHbI<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5511153269\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u2014 Scientific American (@sciam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sciam\/status\/1223417031556550657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 1, 2020<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat hot solar plasma rises in the bright centers of \u2018cells,\u2019 cools, then sinks below the surface in dark lanes in a process known as convection,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s extremely exciting to be a solar physicist at this point in time, with all of these missions,\u201d says Thomas Rimmele, an astronomer and project director of DKIST at the National Solar Observatory. \u201cWith just the first images [from DKIST], you see detail that we\u2019ve never seen before. And this is really just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"5\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 5 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9258826580\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/science\/8939\/heres-what-the-suns-surface-looks-like-and-its-so-confusing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 3 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2884989920\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] As humans, we&#8217;re constantly discovering more and more about our solar system and the planets around us. 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