<p>With the sun as their backdrop, NASA scientists used special imaging techniques to reveal a T-38C jet’s sonic boom. The splotches on the sun, shown in purple, are sunspots—cooler, more magnetically active patches of its surface.</p>
Glare and Blare
With the sun as their backdrop, NASA scientists used special imaging techniques to reveal a T-38C jet’s sonic boom. The splotches on the sun, shown in purple, are sunspots—cooler, more magnetically active patches of its surface.
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NASA captures a sonic boom with the sun, and a comet gets its close-up.
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