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cm0002@lemmy.world to Space@mander.xyz · 9 months ago

See the First-Ever Direct Images of the Sun's South Pole, Captured by the Solar Orbiter Spacecraft

www.smithsonianmag.com

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See the First-Ever Direct Images of the Sun's South Pole, Captured by the Solar Orbiter Spacecraft

www.smithsonianmag.com

cm0002@lemmy.world to Space@mander.xyz · 9 months ago
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The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial human activity on Earth
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  • thenextguy@lemmy.world
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    It looks like this: *

  • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world
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    Why is it only now that I realize Ive only seen the poles of 1 planet and 1 pole of the sun. I really want to see the other 7 planets and Pluto now

    • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world
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      Check out Saturn’s poles, it’s got a bestagon

      • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world
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        Thats fucking awesome, thank you

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        This might be a stupid question, but is there 1 giant storm through the planet?

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        Is there a known regular hexagon larger than the one on Saturn?

        • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world
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          There’s just the one, right on its north pole.

          • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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            Yeah, that regular hexagon is something like twice the Earth’s diameter on a side, it’s enormous. I was wondering if we know of a regular hexagon larger than that anywhere in the known universe?

            It’s a bit like, is the Titanic the largest manmade object ever accidentally broken in half?

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      It’s sad to say but we may never see Pluto again, at least in high definition.

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    This feels like the sun has been upskirted

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    Hold up, the Ulysses probe didn’t take any pictures of the Sun’s poles? Or did it not carry a camera?

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      Or did it not carry a camera?

      It did not:

      All pre-existing images of the sun were taken from within about 7 degrees of its equator. That’s because every spacecraft orbiting the star, along with every planet in our solar system, swoops around the sun in a flat disk called the ecliptic plane, which is tilted just 7.25 degrees relative to the sun’s equatorial plane. (The Ulysses spacecraft is the only one to have passed over the sun’s poles, but it didn’t have a camera.)

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    Is it orangey yellow? I bet it’s orangey yellow.

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      Our sun is actually white with a very slight green tinge. The yellow orange thing is an effect of our atmosphere.

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        and there are purple stars, but humans cant see those wavelengths.

    • atticus88th@lemmy.world
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      I’ll let you know in a few minutes after this big black dot goes away from my vision.

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        How you doin? Still got the dot?

        • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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          It’s been 18 hours, they dead.

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