The Royal Observatory in Greenwich has announced winning and commended entrants in this year’s contest
A photograph of the sun with a huge filament in the shape of a question mark. Solar filaments are arcs of plasma in the sun’s atmosphere given shape by magnetic fields. The photo is a mosaic of two panels. ‘
This is such a clever image as, while we have seen the granulation and surface of the Sun before, I’ve never seen a filament shaped like a question mark before. If you zoom into the surface of the sun, the image has a paint-like quality – I feel like I can see the brush strokes. There’s a sense of movement and you can almost see the question-mark filament moving if you stare long enough
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