Full field image taken by the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center July 15 1999, 13:00:14. (below)     Full field image taken by the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center July 15 1999, 13:06:03. (below)    
                     
  The Sun is 4.5 billion years old and has used up half of the hydrogen in its core. It will continue to radiate for another 5 billion years, its luminosity doubling in that time. Then it will run out of hydrogen fuel and will be forced into radical changes. (above)     Full field image taken by the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center July 15 1999, 14:12:11. (above)     Full field image taken by the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center July 15 1999, 13:19:10. (above)  
                     
           
                     
  The three photographs of the total solar eclipse of 1995 Oct 24 were taken by Fred Espenak of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from the small town of Dundlod, India. The eclipse was unique for its low altitude (23 ¡) and short duration (40 seconds), due to the fact that the Moon was only 1.1% larger than the Sun.   The highly rarified region above the chromosphere, called the corona, extends millions of kilometers into space but is visible only during eclipses (left). Temperatures in the corona are over 1,000,000 K.   White light coronameter images from the High Altitude Observatory Mauna Loa (Hawaii), July 15 1999.  
                     
           
                     
 

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