Unbelievable Close-up Images of the Sun

I liked the pictures so much, I made one of them my new avatar. The phoenix has always been one of my favorite ideas, even the word itself is very aesthetically pleasing, I use it often in my writing and this pic just seemed to scream phoenix.

ive dulled my instinct down to pins and needles
thin and feeble his pen hand dancing faster
i dont need a master i need a saviour
invoke the spokes of the great wheel they spoke about
broken mouth dialect reckless inventive
pensive pyroclast answers with magma agate
phantom panic planned by manic braggart
martial law in the scarlet fall of the harlots ball
awaken the ancient circle verdant urgent
a great star rises in the east prior to the feast of the phoenix
the priest is a pauper on the day of the scholar
all pages bind the great manual channel
part of your animal is part of my anima
shatter the glass and scatter the past
adder the clasp and stagger the grasp
hold my hand and i will hold yours
there is no self only a duel of swords
if you ask you may just receive
but if you dont ask then you really cant leave
deceive the prince and receive the king
kill the system and let freedom ring

Loved the pictures - they were most wondrous. Thanks for sharing the link.

WOW! Beautiful, amazing, awe-inspiring, exquisite. Thanks you for bringing this here. It really lifted my spirit to see such loveliness.

Now, why can't we get such great pictures of the earths moon and of course planets?

S&F

Thank-you for the awe-inspiring photos and the website link! The first
thing that came to my mind were questions... How can mankind
construct a craft that withstands such hellish heat for prolonged periods?
Is there a metal or composite in existance that can endure 50,000 degree
plus temperatures? Apparently there is. Makes you wonder how the
World Trade Center's hardened steel beams melted so easily.

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It's hard to look past and comprehend how beautiful nature, and every thing it has created both here on Earth as well as throughout the universe, truly is.

Some creations of nature are beautiful 'by nature', but others, even though they may not be all that 'beautiful', they still have a way of fascinating us and drawing us in.

I think that shows how, even though we may have forgotten it, we're still deeply connected and entrenched with nature. Nothing fascinates us and interests us like nature does.

These are great pictures! I've noticed that the most fascinating natural occurrences and natural objects are always the most dangerous ones (lightning, tornadoes, volcanoes). This one is no different, because I'm quite everyone here would rather look at these pictures than attempt to get that close.

The sun is an amazing thing. Who knew that it was that amazing? Beautiful. Thanks for the post.

I have been an amateur astronomer for quite a while.

Those are the best solar images I have ever seen.

Congratulations on a great post!

Amazing photos! If they don't capture your imagination, you don't have a pulse! How lucky we are to see those! Just 50 years ago, and for an eternity beforehand, people could hardly dream of seeing such visions. That's a whooole lot of hot, angry hydrogen!

I'm not impressed, with all the amazing technology out there all we see is some pixley low quality crappy images, disappointing.

Holy.. mother.. of.. God. That's what it looks like??

My mind can't handle this.

These were photo shopped. Good one, you almost got me.

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These are absolutely beautiful photos! Breathtaking! You know I never really tried to imagine what the Sun would look like close up. But now that I have seen, I have an ever greater appreciation of it. Thank you for sharing the link and photos.

Star and flag - pretty cool

those photo's of the sun make me hot just looking at them

simply spectacular!!
just an amazing set of images, truly masterpieces each image.

Fantastic Pictures. Thanks for sharing.

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This is awesome as hell...

I never seen something like this.. Some of these images look so 3d'ish.. interesting tho...

that looks like one of the cling on space craft

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So that's where the light ship ended up in

Exactly what I was thinking. Excellent photos, those are so in-depth. Does anyone remember the photos that were posted with pictures of objects that looked like UFO's floating around the sun? I'd like to see this pic getting images of those. Although I think said images were infrared. Don't really remember.