This is the sun your eyes can't see
And you thought it was just yellow…
Turns out, that big object in the sky is pretty psychedelic.
At least, it looks that way when NASA scientists turn their telescopes toward the stars. This image is a compilation of the different wavelengths recorded at the Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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