June 2013's 'Busy Sun'
June of 2013, near the maximum of solar cycle 24, while not extremely active from a solar flare perspective, presented a range of diverse phenomena. We have a couple of solar 'tornadoes' (the twisted protrusions off the limb of the Sun in upper and lower left quadrants), which we eventually see erupt material into space. There are also a number of coronal loops in active regions which are incredibly stable but still exhibit much fine detail.
Movie of a serene but still active Sun.
4Kx4K full-resolution frames of the above movie.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (USRA)
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Scientist
- None None (SDO Science Team and the Virtual Solar Observatory)
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Project support
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Missions
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AIA 171 (171 Filter) [SDO: AIA]
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Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, February 11, 2014.
This page was last updated on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM EST.