Awesome sun pics from NASA (and more Pac-man piecharts)

By at 8:15 pm Thursday, Nov 2


Snip from a NASA announcement:

The Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on Japan's Hinode spacecraft has opened its doors and started snapping pictures. Shown below is a "first light" image taken Oct. 23rd. The light and dark blobs are solar granules, masses of hot gas that rise and fall like water boiling atop a hot stove. Each granule is about the size of a terrestrial continent. SOT has no trouble seeing such detail from Earth-orbit 93 million miles away.
Link. Looks like they found Pac-Man up there, too.

Previously:
* Hilarious pie-chart/video-game joke

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