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Cool sun image

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Theresa Wiegert
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May 12, 2021
The sun imaged as a red orb in the center with rays emanating from it and lit up clouds below.
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Soumyadeep Mukherjee in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, created this composite image from 2 photos taken of the sun on May 5, 2021. He wrote: “The bright sun after emerging from clouds. The hide-and-seek game continues as monsoons approach the Indian subcontinent. The image is a blend of 2 images. The first image, taken without a filter, captures the clouds along with the bright sun. The second image, captured a minute after the first one with a white-light solar filter, shows the photospheric details of the solar disk.” Thank you, Soumyadeep!

We receive excellent photographs from our readers every day. Take a look at EarthSky Community Photos for the latest ones, or submit your own! Take extra care with the sun, though, as looking directly at it (or through a camera lens) will damage your eyes, unless you’re using special equipment.

Bottom line: An interesting image of the sun, submitted by an EarthSky reader.

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Theresa Wiegert

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About the Author:
Theresa Wiegert is a Swedish-Canadian astronomer with a Ph.D. in astrophysics and a master's in physics. She has loved the sky and everything in it and beyond ever since she was four years old and asked her father about the very bright star she saw one early Christmas morning. Learning it wasn’t a star but the planet Venus, she started reading anything astronomy-related she could find. Eventually she ended up as a radio astronomer, researching gas in spiral galaxies. She loves science outreach and teaching, especially showing the night sky to groups of kids (and adults!).

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