Backyard Photographer Captures Incredible Mosaic Photo of 14-Earth Tall Plasma Tornado on the Sun
Two citizen scientists, Andrew McCarthy and Jason Guenzel, have created an incredible mosaic photo of the Sun, featuring a twisty plasma filament stretching out over the limb of the star, which is 14 Earths tall. The photo is made up of about 90,000 individual images taken by McCarthy and processed together with Guenzel. The team also created a plausible Solar Corona, a feature of the Sun that is not visible because the Sun is too bright, using data from NASA's SOHO and an image taken by Guenzel during The Great American Eclipse of 2017.