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    Aug 12, 2021 2 minutes

    The Sun’s sunflower

    Alex Dean, Nottingham, 6 June 2021

    Alex says: “As soon as I realised that you can take amazing images of our closest star, I was completely hooked. It isn’t an easy subject to image by far, but the results speak for themselves. This is an image of AR2829, one of several new active regions we can see now the Sun is waking up from its period of

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