Starship Asterisk*

I can't help but think this is the sun, just a 'few' thousand degrees cooler. Not quite. Jupiter is one tenth the diameter of the Sun and about one thousandths less massive. You'd need 999 other Jupiters the same mass to get a second star like the Sun. However red dwarfs are also stars and you'd ne...

I can't help but think this is the sun, just a 'few' thousand degrees cooler.
IS this what stars look like as they compress and before the thermonuclear reactions start?

I would agree with the window hypothesis except that the sun appears behind the clouds and the cloud pattern is different than it appears in the primary image of the sun. The window examples and "behind the cloud" examples given so far don't seem to have that difference. So, I'm leaning to...

Because it was a library book. Can you imagine the late fees!?!

After review of several postings on this subject, I've come to the following amalgam solution to the Voinich problem. The book is a transcripted copy, by a gypsy alchemist from the middle ages, of a book accidently left behind by an alien botanist space navigator named ET. This explains the similar,...