Amazing Pictures of the Sun (and Earth)

The Sun's magnetic field is much more turbulent than scientists had previously thought.

Leon Golub, senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said, "Theorists suggested that twisted, tangled magnetic fields might exist...With the X-Ray Telescope, we can see them clearly for the first time."

More fiery images after the jump.



Here's a pretty impressive picture showing just how small the Earth is compared to the Sun.



And here is the life of a Sun, it only lives around 12 billion years.



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Tags: Sun | Magnetic Field