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The Sun and Its Missing Colors

By |2025-12-07T15:44:29-05:00December 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device. The spectrum was created at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory and shows, first off, that although our white-appearing Sun [...]

The Colors of Saturn from Cassini

By |2024-06-23T09:09:11-04:00June 23rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What creates Saturn's colors? The featured picture of Saturn only slightly exaggerates what a human would see if hovering close to the giant ringed world. The image was taken in 2005 by the robot Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. Here Saturn's majestic rings appear directly only [...]

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