Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sun - August 1, 2010.jpg

The sun with a lot of activity
Voting period ends on 21 Aug 2010 at 14:36:17 (UTC)
 * Reason:I think this picture has high EV and it is a fine picture of the recent eruption on the sun, which lead to the polar lights covered in the news. It's also rare as it shows a solar tsunami in the upper right. Though it's not perfect, I think it deserves a FP. What's your opinion?
 * Articles in which this image appears: Sun, Solar Flare
 * FP category for this image:Space/Astronomy
 * Creator:NASA/SDO/AIA - edited by Hive001


 * Support as nominator -- Hive001  contact  14:36, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm sure I've seen higher quality versions of the Sun and this image. Also, there are better images available to illustrate Solar flare than what are used on that page, like these:, but those are mostly flares and prominences -- I'ḏ ♥  One  15:25, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, this is a picture of the whole sun and not only flares and prominences. What I really like here is the solar tsunami. I've never seen that before   Hive001   contact  16:31, 12 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Support Wow. Just... wow.  --Lucas Brown 15:26, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Greg L (talk) 19:30, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Support Very compelling. Cowtowner (talk) 03:48, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Support Knew this was going to come to Wikipedia when I saw it in... Scientific American, I think. Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:07, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 16:12, 21 August 2010 (UTC)