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A white-light image taken by the Big Bear Solar Observatory. A white, or visible, light image is what you see if you use a pinhole camera to view the sun (never look at the sun directly!). It shows us a picture of the photosphere: the "surface" of the sun. These images show sunspots, regions of intense magnetic fields which are cooler than the surrounding areas.


 
 

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