Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. In celebration , consider this delightfully detailed, brightly colored image of the active Sun . The combined image shows bright active regions strewn across the solar disk, which would otherwise appear as dark groups of sunspots in visible light images, along with some magnificent plasma loops and an immense prominence at the righthand solar limb.
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