Everything about photographing the sun is extreme. With a vast illumination 400,000 times brighter than the moon, the sun can be captured in detail only by using extremely specialized—and very expensive—equipment. The images that appear are no less extreme.
The scale is also incredible. Size comparisons on Earth bear hardly any relationship with those on the sun, where solar events can trigger plasma filaments and prominences that tower over a million miles above the chromosphere and, in theory, could engulf our world countless times over.
