The closest-ever images taken of the sun have revealed mini solar flares called “campfires” dotted across its surface.
Genesis tells us that on the fourth day of creation, God spoke into existence the greater light of the sun, and the lesser light of the moon. All through the bible, in both Testaments, the sun is shown to us as a type or metaphor of Jesus Christ. Indeed, the blazing, all-consuming sun is an excellent picture of the white-hot holiness that is God, and a terrifying picture of His wrath and judgment. The last book of our Old Testament, Malachi, shows us this type picture of the sun as Jesus Christ in stunning technicolor.
"For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts." Malachi 4:1-3 (KJB)
To call Jesus Christ the 'Sun of righteousness' is about a clear a picture of the power of our Saviour as you're going to get. When Saul met the risen Jesus on the Damascus road, he was allowed to view Him unfiltered, which caused Saul to immediately lose his sight and go blind for a season. In our physical world, there is nothing more powerful than the sun, created by the only begotten Son of God, who stands without equal in all eternity. I wonder if NASA ever thinks about these things while snapping photos of the sun?
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." Revelation 14:9-11 (KJB)
Of course, the endless, burning fiery majesty of the sun is also an excellent picture of the nature of Hell, which burns with fire unquenchable. Whether you spend eternity burning in the Lake of Fire, or eternity with Jesus Christ in Heaven, you will find yourself in the midst of the power of God forever and ever. But I highly recommend you
choose to be with Jesus in Heaven, over the endless, raging fires of Hell. You won't like Hell one tiny, little bit.
Closest pictures of sun ever taken reveal mysterious 'campfires'
FROM YAHOO NEWS: The images were captured last month by the Solar Orbiter, a European Space Agency (ESA) probe designed and built in the UK. Scientists say the pictures could shed light on the mysterious process that means the outer layer of the star is so much hotter than the layers below. The spacecraft came within 47 million miles of the sun’s surface and passed between the orbits of Venus and Mercury.
David Berghmans from the Royal Observatory of Belgium said: “When the first images came the first thought was this is not possible, they cannot be that good, it was really much better than what we dared to hope for.”
Solar flares are sudden flashes of high-energy radiation from the sun’s surface, which can cause radio and magnetic disturbances on the Earth.
Dr Caroline Harper, head of space science at the UK Space Agency, said that scientists were excited by the presence of campfires that are “millions of times smaller than the solar flares”.
She said: “We do not really know what they (the campfires) are doing but there is speculation that they might play a role in coronal heating, a mysterious process whereby the outer layer of the sun, known as the corona, is much hotter (around 300 times) than the layers below.
“These campfires may be contributing to that in a way we do not know yet.” The mystery of why the Sun’s corona is so hot has been a mystery for years.
ESA's Solar Orbiter project scientist Daniel Müller: “The Sun’s corona is a little counter-intuitive because you would think if you had a body that was relatively cool at the centre it would be even cooler the further you go away but on the contrary, we have a hot core, a relatively cool surface of just about 5,500 degrees surrounded by a super hot atmosphere of more than a million degrees.”
“In mid-June, Solar Orbiter made its first close pass of the Sun following its Feb 9 launch, turning on all 10 of its instruments together for the first time,” NASA said in a statement on its website.
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