It looks like this: *
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Why is it only now that I realize Ive only seen the poles of 1 planet and 1 pole of the sun. I really want to see the other 7 planets and Pluto now
Hold up, the Ulysses probe didn't take any pictures of the Sun's poles? Or did it not carry a camera?
Or did it not carry a camera?
It did not:
All pre-existing images of the sun were taken from within about 7 degrees of its equator. Thatβs because every spacecraft orbiting the star, along with every planet in our solar system, swoops around the sun in a flat disk called the ecliptic plane, which is tilted just 7.25 degrees relative to the sunβs equatorial plane. (The Ulysses spacecraft is the only one to have passed over the sunβs poles, but it didnβt have a camera.)
Is it orangey yellow? I bet it's orangey yellow.
I'll let you know in a few minutes after this big black dot goes away from my vision.
Our sun is actually white with a very slight green tinge. The yellow orange thing is an effect of our atmosphere.
I was expecting to see something interesting, akin to the colossal-sized hexagonal storm that ominously drapes across the entire polar region of Saturn, but seeing the images of the sun's poles, I realize it's hard to look at an eternal enormous explosion that has existed before the solar system was a twinkle in God's ballsack.
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