Dangerous Sunburn Photos 

Here we post all the great, painful, and wierd sunburn photso we have found and you have sent in.

Warning!!  Sunburn Images may be graphic in nature.

This 3rd degree sunburn photo was snet in by Kate S. from Chicago,Illinois.  “Here is a picture of the terrible sunburn I got when on Spring Break 2008  Panama Beach.  I thought I was going to die”  after going to the hospital and spending the rest of the week recovering from the sunburn in my hotel room it was a very expensive lesson in wearing sunscreen.”     

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I have personally witnessed the destruction melanoma can bring to a family.  The melanoma can quickly spread from skin to organs and become terminal if left undiagnosed and untreated. 

 Here is image of a small melanoma to reference if you are trying to identify a new skin mole.    

 

 

 

Aspirin Paste

Mix together a paste of two aspirin (crushed to powder form), aloe vera gel, and vitamin A & D cream.  Mix these ingredients vigourously making sure aspirin is completely liquefied  as small chunks or gritty paste will casue additional discomfort when applying to sunburned     skin. Use the back part of a spoon to crush and smooth paste.  Apply to sunburn and cover with light clothing or damp rags. This will help alleviate blistering and reduce discomfort. Great results from those that have tried.

Grannys Cider Vinegar Cure

Apply cider vinegar on your sunburn helps establish a tan and it helps stop blistering. Use before and after sun exposure should be applied before and after a bathing. It also provides relief from the pain of a really bad sunburn.

SUN (Burn) Tea
INGREDIENTS: Tea
Directions: Take four tea bags and make a pitcher of boiled tea or sun tea (Sunburn Tea. Place tea in the fridge to cool or add ice. Once it is chilled wet a rag and apply to sunburned skin for instant sunburn relief. The acid in the tea will turn the burn to tan. It was used in burn clinics for years with success!  You can also put into spray bottle and spray directly on skin.

Aloe Gel or Plant

INGREDIENTS: Pure Aloe Vera Gel or Plant Salve
INSTRUCTIONS: Squirt or squeeze salve from an aloe plant cutting on your hand a rub (gently) into the sunburn. It can get a little uncomfortable when salves or gel dries but provides great sunburn relief and has been reported that it reduces damage to skin cells and helps prevent skin cancer.

Information as provided by NASA

The Sun is a star. It is a rather ordinary star - not particularly big or small, not particularly young or old. It is the source of heat which sustains life on Earth, and controls our climate and weather. It is the closest star to Earth, and the most closely studied. From it we have learned a great deal about the physical processes which determine the structure and evolution of stars in general.

Below we discuss the regions of the Sun’s atmosphere which we can observe and measure.

The Sun’s Outer Layers Only the Sun’s outer layers, collectively referred to as the solar ‘atmosphere’, can be observed directly. There are distinct regions to the solar atmosphere: the photosphere, the chromosphere, and the corona. These three regions have substantially different properties from each other, with regions of gradual transition between them. The Photosphere The Sun has basically the same chemical elements as found on Earth. However, the Sun is so hot that all of these elements exist in the gaseous state.There is not really a “surface” to the Sun. Think of it this way: the Sun is a bunch of gas which gets denser and denser as you move from space toward the solar core. The photosphere would then represent the depth at which we can see no deeper toward the core. Think of what a thick cloud looks like when you look down on it from an airplane - it looks solid, but it isn’t.

The Parts of a Star

The Sun’s atmosphere changes from being transparent to being opaque over a distance of only a few hundred kilometers. This is remarkable given the size of the Sun, and represents such a huge change that we often think of it as a true boundary. When we speak of the size of the Sun, we usually mean the size of the region surrounded by the photosphere. The photosphere is slightly different from one place on the Sun to another, but in general is has a pressure about a few hundredths of the sea-level pressure on Earth, a density of about a ten-thousandth of the Earth’s sea-level atmospheric density, and a temperature in the range 4500-6000 Kelvin.

The Chromosphere

The gases which extend away from the photosphere make up the chromosphere. These gases are transparent to most visible radiation. The chromosphere is about 2500 km thick. The density of the gases decreases as you move away from the photosphere into the chromosphere, but the temperature increases! From the bottom to the top of the chromosphere, the average temperature goes from 4500 to 10,000 Kelvin! Needless to say, this rise was not anticipated by scientists when they first measured it. Throughout the rest of the Sun, temperature decreases as you move further away from the core.

The Corona The chromosphere merges into the outermost region of the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona. The corona extends for millions of miles into space above the photosphere. Usually, we cannot see the corona because of the brightness of the photosphere. However, during a total solar eclipse, the corona shines beautifully against the dark sky. The corona has a density about 0.0000000001 times that of the Earth’s sea-level atmosphere. It is very hot - millions of Kelvin. Because of this high temperature, the bulk of the radiation from the corona is emitted at ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths. Magnetic fields on the Sun seem to play an important part in heating the gas to such a high temperature. However, the exact way that this happens is not well understood. The image you see to the left was taken during a solar eclipse in 1980; light from the photosphere is blocked out by the Moon (the dark disk).

A Few Other Solar Features

The Solar Wind

The solar wind is nothing more than a stream of charged particles flowing outward from the Sun with an average velocity of about 400 km/sec. It is a natural consequence of the Sun being so hot - the corona gas has too much energy to be gravitationally bound to the Sun.

Sunspots and Their Cycle

Sunspots are cooler regions on the Sun’s photosphere (about 1500 K cooler) and so appear to be darker than the photosphere. A given sunspot can have a lifetime ranging from a few hours to a few months. It consists of two parts - the dark inside region called the umbra and the surrounding less dark region called the penumbra. Their sizes vary over a wide range, with a few having been measured to be 50,000 km in diameter!A German amateur astronomer, Heinrich Schwabe, published a paper in 1851 which stated that the number of sunspots visible on average varied with a period of about 10 years. This conclusion has been substantiated by observations over the 140 years since. The period of repetition on average is 11.1 years, but has been as short as 8 years and as long as 16 years.

During the maximum of the cycle, more than 100 sunspots can be seen on the Sun at once. During the minima, the Sun sometimes has no spots at all. This cycle is closely related to the magnetism of the Sun. In fact, it is the changing magnetic field of the Sun which governs many aspects of solar activity.