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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Green and blue never looked so good together....


 Circe Invidiosa by J. W. Waterhouse, 1892
(in the Art Gallery of South Australia)


One of the first images from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory, launched in February on a five year mission to study Sun's magnetic field (false color image, blues and greens above 1 million kelvin in temperature).


Perseus and Andromeda, 1876, Edward Burne-Jones
 (in the Art Gallery of South Australia)


Aurora borealis over Eyjafjallajokull volcano/glacier in Iceland....possibly even caused by the solar flares seen in sun picture above?  Photo by Albert Jakobsson.