THIS PHOTO OF THE SUN IS SO ABSURDLY DETAILED THAT IT LOOKS LIKE A LIVING ORGANISM

"ORDINARILY, TAKING A TELESCOPE AND POINTING AT THE SUN WOULD BE INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS."


Black Hole Sun

Famed astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has truly outdone himself with his latest picture of the Sun.

McCarthy, who calls himself “just a normal guy with a telescope” on his Instagram account, stitched a whopping 150,000 images of the Sun together to form a massive 300 megapixel image he titled “Fire and Fusion.”

The result is a glorious swirling mess of hot gases that almost appear almost organism-like — an angry ball of energy that gave life to everything around us billions of years ago.

What makes it all the more impressive was the fact that it was taken from a backyard, rather than by an orbital telescope or space probe that had to travel almost 100 million miles to get up close.