Detailed Pictures Of The Sun Let You Get Up Close And Personal With The Star (PHOTOS)On October 20, amateur astronomer Alan Friedman got a little face time with the sun.
Using his own telescope, Friedman captured a highly detailed photograph of our solar system's star using a filter to capture Hα (H-alpha) light waves, which Discover Magazine defines as "the light of Hydrogen."
The images below might look like a swirling sea of fire, but what's shown is actually light from the chromosphere, a thin layer that sits between the photosphere and the corona, the the sun's outermost layer.
Discover Magazine explains how Friedman captured light from the chromosphere:
