This isn't the eye of Sauron, it's the highest resolution image of a sunspot ever captured. The spot you're looking at measures roughly 10,000 miles across—large enough for Earth to fit inside of it.
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#TBT: Yet another clip from 1919 of a young gîkûyû woman having her hair conditioned using castor oil, which was widely used by the community and referred to as ‘maguta ma mbarîki’.
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About 8,000 light-years away, a cluster of young stars called Pismis 24 unleashes intense radiation and winds, carving out a cavity in the nebula where the stars formed. This #HubbleClassic shows the cluster and part of the nebula, called NGC 6357: https://t.co/7Ts478e6Eg