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Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian
(Eyes at Night)
Explanation:
These two panels, composed of video frames made
with a safe solar telescope and
hydrogen alpha filter,
show remarkably sharp details on
the solar
disk
and giant prominences along the Sun's edge on June 6 (top) and June 18.
Taken from Beijing, China, they also show a transit of the
International Space Station and China's new
Tiangong Space Station
in silhouette against the bright Sun.
The
International
Space Station
is near center in the bottom panel,
crossing the solar disk left of bright active region AR2833 and below
a large looping solar filament.
The Chinese space station is below solar active region AR2827 and
right of center in the top panel,
seen as a smaller, combined "+" and "-" shape.
The pictures of the
transiting orbital outposts
were taken with the same equipment and at the same pixel scale,
with the International Space Station some 492 kilometers away.
The Chinese space station was over 400 kilometers
from the camera.
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Sun
Publications with words: Sun
See also:
- APOD: 2024 September 2 Á A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun
- APOD: 2024 August 18 Á A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO
- APOD: 2024 August 4 Á Gaia: Here Comes the Sun
- APOD: 2024 July 28 Á Sun Dance
- Prominences and Filaments on the Active Sun
- APOD: 2024 May 28 Á Solar X Flare as Famous Active Region Returns
- APOD: 2024 May 26 Á A Solar Filament Erupts