Solar Prominence Dance - December 31, 2012

  • Released Monday, February 11, 2013
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On the final day of 2012, the sun presented a beautiful twisting prominence that rose high into the corona for about 3 hours. It 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.

Colorized 4Kx4K SDO imagery of the prominences

Colorized 4Kx4K SDO imagery of the prominences

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

This page was originally published on Monday, February 11, 2013.
This page was last updated on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM EST.

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