Amateur astrophotography is becoming increasingly popular among the astronomy community, as advancements in telescope and camera technologies allow individuals from all walks of life to observe the heavens in mind-blowing detail, including our own Sun,
While this feature doesn't look that big, McCarthy provides a stack of 14 Earths for scale within the video to show the gargantuan size of this tornado-like monstrosity. But while tornadoes are commonplace on Earth, what's happening on the Sun's surface to create such a unique phenomenon?
McCarthy tells Universe Today that this sequence was imaged using a modified telescope that can observe the Sun's atmosphere in what's known asusing hundreds of thousands of images over a few hours, and he says this was not a random encounter as he monitors the Sun's behavior on a daily basis. "Each frame of the video was a stack of about 500 individual images," McCarthy tells Universe Today."The feature was relatively faint against the much brighter solar disc, so it was difficult to resolve the contrast against the glare otherwise."
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