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this is a NASA SDO image of sunspot region AR1302 from 9-26-2011
[link to helioviewer.org]
[link to www.lmsal.com]
[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]
Data-A1A/HM1 browse data-browse by day-2011/9/26-A1A 171 (gold)
imo this is a very unusual instance of Pareidolia [link to en.wikipedia.org] ..because of the number of different things that can be seen and how well defined they are..
Perceptions of religious imagery in natural phenomena
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
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Simulacra: from the Latin simulacrum which means "likeness, similarity", was first recorded in the English language in the late 16th century, used to describe a representation, such as a statue or a painting, especially of a god.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
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about one day prior to that image appearing, a HUGE spike showed up on HINODE
the unedited images above, along with technical info, are found at the top of the page on this link from lmsal
[link to www.lmsal.com]
[...]"Active Region 1302 is something special," Alan writes on his blog. "It's BIG... the field of view of this photo is about 110,000 miles -- almost 14 earths would fit across it. Traveling from end to end is a schlep almost half the distance from the earth to the moon. It's BAD, popping off X class flares and harboring the potential for more. But mostly, to my eye, it's a BEAUTY, from the complex convolutions of the largest sunspot penumbra to the little heart shaped umbra at the bottom -- all set in a sea of photospheric granules."
[link to news.discovery.com]
AIA 171 (2011-09-26 20:09:00 - 2011-09-27 02:08:24 UTC)
note: this thread is a work in progress. The op and especially the second post has and will be updated (many times since I started this thread)
note: the first 4 pages re: the active region from Sept..page five has new images from the long duration events which began 1-19-2012
ETA: 6-01-16 when I started this thread I was using a non-HD monitor which is why some of the images look blurry.
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