strange radiation: the pool of radiance archive
Adventures with an unreliable narrator.
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Apr 4 05: why does the sun shine (primarily along specific ranges of wavelengths)?
The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas—
A giant nuclear furnace!
And space weather dot com got this groovy shot
Of it rising, seen through an H-alpha filter.
(H-alpha filters are tuned to the glow of solar hydrogen. Go to spaceweather.com and dial up the archives for March 28 for a further explanation.)
(With apologies to TMBG, although I bet they’d think the picture is cool, too.)