Can you see the Sun from from outer space?

Bollocks.



Did your google break?



Claiming that light is somehow magicly different in space is as detached from reality as claiming the Earth is flat.


How?

What is so magical about "outer space" that photons suddenly behave differently?
And again what's wrong with the cameras on space probes, or the cameras attached to Apolllo astronauts.

This is all just your opinion as it is mine how about some facts or proof. A simple photograph would suffice?

baloney. Yes you can

Nothing "opinion" about observed facts.


Your opinion (whatever it actually is) is not based on any facts.
It is wrong.


I offered you several.
You ignored them, or handwaved them away.


Apparently you don't care enough to find one.
I made several suggestions.

Your unwillingness to test your idea, to put any work in it, indicates you don't care for the truth.

I have looked in many places and I have yet to find one!

So you're inept.

Try harder, learn how to search.
If you don't learn to that on your own you'll always be dependent.

holy shit OP are you trolling or are you REALLY this retarded?

Not that I agree with OP at all, I just wanted to point out that you are as dumb, if not more, than the people you're calling dumb.

The Earth's atmosphere acts as a lens, greatly magnifying the light coming from space.

The atmosphere does not 'block' your view of things in space at all, it will in fact enhance your view.

There's quite a famous photograph taken by Voyager 1 that shows the Solar System from about 40AU (about 60Billion km).

The sun is very visible next to the "EV" mark on the left of the photo.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Last Edited by IFUK on 02/04/2013 06:32 AM

To answer the question though, yes, you can see the sun from space. NASA simply has a tendency to keep their instruments pointed away from it, because rarely is having a blinding light fill the screen a productive use of a camera.

Even though the ISS is technically in the atmosphere, it's angle to the sun would not let it experience the same 'lens' effect that we experience on the ground. We experience it because we are at the focal point of the lens, whereas in the upper atmosphere the IIS is only experiencing a tiny fraction of this effect, and is not at it's focal point.

Oh, the irony.

I will cut to the chase: you're a moran.
You accusing other people of being dumb only makes it funnier.

The atmosphere does bend light, but only noticeably so when the Sun, or Moon, is at the horizon.
If the atmosphere worked like a magnifying lens than some parts of the Earth would get less light.
Magnifying lenses don't increase the total amount of light, they just focus it.

Air is near 100% transparent for the visible spectrum.
But because the atmosphere is thick and never doesn't have any water vapour and dust in it, it will decrease the amount of light that reaches the ground by about 15% under even the best conditions.

You know what? Thank you! this is about the only picture I have seen of the Sun from space. Thanks to you I looked up voyager pictures and found one more so now that's two.

Last Edited by Keneh on 02/04/2013 11:28 AM

Your not really helping.

Here it is just about the only picture taken of the Sun from space.

[link to www.flickr.com]

Help?
You should learn to help yourself.

It is you that has a beef with very well established physics.
It is you that has to proof things.


You mean about the only one you could find.


So, what makes the camera on Voyager 1 different from those on STEREO and SOHO?
Or those used on the surface of the Moon?
Your standard of evidence seems to be completely arbitrary.

Voyager has a regular narrow and wide angle camera's that can take regular pictures. SOHO and STEREO have specialized instruments that can make specialized images. Im not a scientist but i understand the differnce between a regular photograph and the Images from SOHO and STEREO.

The human sack probably thinks the sun is powered by nuclear fusion also.


Keep on shillin.

The guy in the video says the sun is electric. I think I believe this because all the research I have been doing since I saw this video kind of point to that instead of fusion. Also the very few pictures I have seen of the sun in space remind me of a giant Arc lamp.

One of the features we observe on the sun which have no business being there according to the standard model, are sunspots. The most significant thing about a sunspot, is the fact that center of the sunspot is dark. If the sun is trying to radiate light energy from its core, we should expect that it is bright. If you think about the Umbra, the darkest place in the center of sunspots. That's the place where we can see deepest into the sun. Consider the fact at that point where we can really see down into the sun, that's the absolute coldest place we are able to measure.

Mainstream science on TV and what is taught to you in school is not only boring. It's 100% wrong.



Also why would it be 6000K on the surface and 2.2 million k in the corona? physics? fuck physics.

This pic was taking in HD from the Mars Reconnasiance obiter 88 million miles from earth and 50+ million miles from Mars.This is a FREE SPACE photo. No light interference from anything. Notice anything missing ? yes YOU CANNOT SEE STARS FROM FREE SPACE. Eric Dollars was correct.


[link to www.nasa.gov]

The active place is always hotter.

Dat link didn't work

lol, no it's not.

Beautiful picture.



:nostars:

do you also think earth can't be viewed in space lol

The earth is reflecting light. The sun is creating light. I wonder if there is a difference.

Light is still a mystery.

In this thread: stupid people talking to themselves and ignoring educated people.

You cannot see stars in most photographs because stars are quite small compared to the field of view, especially in pictures which have very low resolutions, such as the 800x800 resolution image of the earth and moon, above.

Here's an interesting article about the navigation system used for the Apollo missions, which required the astronauts to take sightings of various stars to determine their position in space.

[link to www.ion.org]