APOD 4.4

Bright Points on the Quiet Sun

This picture looks like a lot of little cells but it is really a very upclose view of solar surface it looks like a striking patch work of little granules because it is in a very high resolution picture of the what we would first think of as a quiet Sun with little activity. These granules are very hot the rising columns of plasma , the lighter parts of the cells, are edged by dark lanes of cooler and because they are cooler are also descending plasma. This high-resolution picture also helps us see that the dark lanes appear to be dotted alot of tinny contrasting bright points.This is very cool because we get to see, the sun, close up, and not how we normally think of our hot ball of gas a fire.