The Sun is the Most Expensive Special Effect Known to Humanity

[woodwardiocom]

-Here's today's beautiful astronomy picture of the day (even if it does look like an expensive special effect).



-Note that you could fit the Earth inside the claws of that filament. But it would be a bad idea.

Comments

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

Isn't the Sun basically free? Or maybe you're talking about how much it costs to get those pictures of it.

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

Oh, by the way, the picture is gorgeous!

[metalfatigue]

Actually, I believe he's referencing the "aesthetic of artifice," in which how expensive something is determines its perceived beauty (see Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire).

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

-Or I'm joking.

[metalfatigue]

I'm a deconstructionist. You're referencing what I say you're referencing. Il n'y a que la texte!

[alcinoe.livejournal.com]

Oooooo Pretty!!

[aota.livejournal.com]

Awesome picture. Its hard imagining the the scale of those claws.

[crazybone.livejournal.com]

Oooooh. Aaaaaah.
It looks like something being born.
Like a phoenix or a dragon.
The middle part of the claw kind of looks like a head is forming.
In any case, I've found my new desktop background pic.