Sunspot Growth in June 2012

  • Released Monday, February 11, 2013
  • Updated Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 10:28AM
  • ID: 4037

An HD movie of the sunspot evolution.

Groups of sunspots grow and die over a matter of days. This is a movie built from images taken by the SDO/HMI instrument over the course of 13 days during the rise of solar cycle 24.

Full resolution, colorized 4Kx4K frames of the sunspot evolution.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, the SDO Science Team, and the Virtual Solar Observatory.

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Datasets used in this visualization

SDO SDO Continuum (A.K.A. Continuum) (Collected with the HMI sensor)
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