Growing Sunspots - A Full Disk View: February 2011

  • Released Friday, January 27, 2012
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Here is a leisurely view of SDO/HMI data, sampled every hour, covering two weeks in the middle of February 2011. While the solar disk starts out featureless, eventually small groups of sunspots (the darker regions) emerge, grow, and then rotate out of view.

For a closeup view of of one of these sunspot groups, see animation 3898, Growing Sunspots - Tracking Closeup: February 2011

This movie plays a two-week long view of the Sun, sampled every hour.

These are the full-resolution 4Kx4K imagery from SDO/HMI with a black-body color table applied.

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This page was originally published on Friday, January 27, 2012.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:01 AM EST.

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