Astro-Porn of the Day: Mars and Comet fun, Giant Sunspot.

[mckitterick]

Amazing astro-porn thanks to NASA - no Photoshop here.

Hubble captures a comet in the same frame as Mars:


Sunspot group on the Sun that's bigger than Jupiter:


The Sun in hydrogen-alpha, from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:


For reference about that sunspot group:


Science is awesome.

Comments

[pointoforigin.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is glorious and scary. Thanks for posting the great pictures.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I could hardly believe coming across such a wealth - all on the same day!