A Face in the Sun

While I have not done so in a while, I typically view images of our Sun on a daily basis. Regardless of what our differences are as people, or as living beings of any type on this planet, the Sun remains our common thread, the ultimate source of all life on Earth.

The Sun is examined in numerous different types of equipment by astronomers and astrophysicists on a daily basis, and is shared freely through many different, easy to access databases (sites listed at the bottom of this post).

The initial image at the top of this page was taken by SOHO EIT 304 (Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope).

The bright spot in the southern hemisphere of the Sun is a solar storm, or "Sun spot,"during which large amounts of radiation from deep within the Sun, also known as Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is released, and projected out into space.

On a tangental note to the purpose of this specific article, these solar storms have a specific polarity which alternates from one solar cycle to the other. This enables the observer with the right tools to look at each sun spot and determine which solar cycle it belongs to. It has also been shown that solar storms from different solar cycles can coexist.

But this is not the purpose of this article.

I was looking through the images of the Sun from December 31st, and in the green-tinted images the solar flares in the southern hemisphere seemed to create the shape of lips, and when I looked to the surrounding area it was almost as if I could see a face...a nose..cheek structures...

I am not by any means trying to spread anything metaphysical here, because I have no such insight. But, the Sun is the center of our universe, regardless of where it lies in the plane of physical matter that encompasses us all......

I can explain its being there...why it works, how it began and how we postulate it will die, but I am still in awe that in the darkness of space and time there is a force working, constantly laboring, that enables me to write this right now.....and afford me the opportunity to be late to my first work appointment....which is no doubtedly about to occur.

The sites listed in the sources section are beyond amazing, and I hope that readers here can stop by and pay them a visit from time to time...

The Sun wouldn't mind some company...

I hope one day to make its unknowing efforts, on my and our collective behalf, to mean something truly worthwhile....