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[โ€“] [email protected] 106 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This image seems to be not from NASA but this guy: https://www.instagram.com/thevastreaches/

They uploaded it to Reddit in 2021: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/kyunx2/a_recent_picture_i_shot_using_a_backyard_solar/

Comment by OP:

I shot this image using the equipment listed below. While editing my results, I just kept pushing harder and harder into the details of the solar chromosphere. The chromosphere is a visible layer of hydrogen plasma which aligns itself with local magnetic field lines. As I ventured further down this road it became clear that the end result becomes somewhat of a visualization of this field. Plus, it just looks pretty cool.

This walks the line between science into art, perhaps blurring it a bit. What do you think?

Gear:
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Explore Scientific AR152
Daystar Quark Chromosphere
ASI174MM-Cool
Celestron AVX
December 10, 2020
1250/5000 stacked

[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

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Without people like you the internet would be an unperturbed cesspool of lies

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All pictures of space are artificially colored to make it easier to see patterns. I see no issue with this

edit: just realized the bit I was responding to was from the poster of the image but I'll leave this here anyway