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Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian
(Eyes at Night)
Explanation:
It may look like a
paper Moon.
Sailing past a
canvas Sun.
But those are not cardboard clouds.
And it's not make believe.á
The featured picture of an
orange colored sky is real --
a digital composite of two exposures of the
solar eclipse that occurred earlier this month.
The first exposure was taken with a regular telescope that captured an
overexposed Sun and an underexposed Moon,
while the second image was taken with a
solar telescope
that captured details of the
chromosphere
of the background Sun.
The Sun's
canvas-like texture was brought up by imaging in a very
specific shade of red emitted
by
hydrogen.
Several
prominences can be seen around the Sun's edge.
The image was captured just before sunset from
Xilingol,
Inner Mongolia,
China.
It's also not make-believe to imagine that
the Moon
is made of dense rock,
the Sun
is made of hot gas, and
clouds are made of
floating droplets of water and ice.
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