whats the dark thing on the photo of the sun?

Question

what is the dark thing on the photo of the sun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sun920607.jpg

Answer 1

if i am correct those are sun spots....the sun is hotter in those areas i think.....i remember reading that somewhere

Answer 2

It's a sunspot. Sunspots are cooler than the rest of the sun (still hot enough to turn a pig into bacon into its constituent atoms in the blink of an eye) and thus appear darker. They're usually about a thousand kelvin cooler. That's a lot - enough to make them look black against the background of the rest of the sun, obviously - but they still don't get much cooler than 4000 K.

Answer 3

Sunspots! These are some type of eruption from the sun's surface, bu are actually cooler than the surrounding area (though it's still pretty hot).

Look it up on wikipedia - I could be a little wrong about the details, but they are definitely Sunspots.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Le soleil, dont quelques taches sont visibles.