September 23, 2012 Solar Prominence
On September 23, 2012 the sun emitted a large blast of plasma in the form of a prominence (see Wikipedia). This was most visible in extreme ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 304 angstroms. This wavelength highlights plasma with temperatures of around 50,000 Kelvin. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the event at 4k resolution and a high imaging cadence of one image every 12 seconds.
HD movie of the prominence eruption
Colorized 4Kx4K SDO imagery of the prominence eruption.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, the SDO Science Team, and the Virtual Solar Observatory.
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (USRA)
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Writer
- Karen Fox (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, February 11, 2013.
This page was last updated on Friday, August 2, 2024 at 4:17 PM EDT.
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AIA 304 (304 Filter) [SDO: AIA]
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