Map of Titan's mountain chains compiled by Cassini, with officially named peaks indicated. The mountains are named after mountains appearing in the fictional works of J.R.R. Tolkien, such as The Lord of the Rings. (Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/University…
Map of the differential rotation of the Sun, determined from helioseismology. The poles rotate slowly and the equator much faster, but the center of the Sun, below the convective zone, rotates as a rigid body. (Credit: K. G. Libbrecht and M. F.…
The diamond-ring effect surrounded along the limb of the Moon by the pinkish chromosphere and the pinkish prominences on either side, viewed at the Easter Island total solar eclipse of 2010. The inner corona is also visible outside the silhouette of…
Photospheric granulation in white light taken with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST), located on the island of La Palma and operated by the Institute for Solar Physics in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de…