Just over the Limb Solar Event captured by SDO and IRIS

  • Released Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:50PM
  • ID: 4211

On May 9, 2014, an active region has just rotated over the limb of the Sun when it launches a large amount of plasma into space. Both SDO and IRIS caught the event.

Full-disk view from Solar Dynamics Observatory of an eruption on the limb of the Sun (lower right).

Starting with full-disk view from SDO, the view zooms-in to the view of IRIS on the solar limb. The IRIS view repeatedly slews the spectroscopic slit (the dark line across the center of the IRIS view) across the region of interest.

Full-disk 4Kx4K SDO images.

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

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