(ORDO NEWS) — What you are actually seeing is 90,000 individual photographs stitched together to create an accurate image of the star at the center of the solar system.
Astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Jason Günzel used NASA data and satellite imagery to create this image, which they called the Helios Confluence.
In this close-up shot, orange filaments of plasma can be seen bouncing off the surface of the Sun.
“We’re using multiple layers of the Sun’s atmosphere that would normally be impossible to photograph at the same time,” McCarthy said.
The plasma layer of the Sun, called the chromosphere, can only be seen under certain conditions.
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