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Launched on February 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing through the sun's atmosphere, the corona.SDO captures images of the sun in 10 different wavelengths, each of which helps highlight a different temperature of solar material. Different temperatures can, in turn, show specific structures on the sun such as solar flares, which are gigantic explosions of light and x-rays, or coronal loops, which are stream of solar material travelling up and down looping magnetic field lines.Scientists study these images to better understand the complex electromagnetic system causing the constant movement on the sun, which can ultimately have an effect closer to Earth, too. Flares and another type of solar explosion called coronal mass ejections can sometimes disrupt technology in space. Moreover, studying our closest star is one way of learning about other stars in the galaxy. 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Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing through the sun's atmosphere, the corona. SDO's fourth year in orbit was no exception: NASA is releasing a movie of some of SDO's best sightings of the year, including massive solar explosions and giant sunspot shows. SDO captures images of the sun in 10 different wavelengths, each of which helps highlight a different temperature of solar material. Different temperatures can, in turn, show specific structures on the sun such as solar flares, which are giant explosions of light and x-rays, or coronal loops, which are streams of solar material traveling up and down looping magnetic field lines. The movie shows examples of both, as well as what's called prominence eruptions, when masses of solar material leap off the sun. The movie also shows a sunspot group on the solar surface. This sunspot, a magnetically strong and complex region appearing in mid-January 2014, was one of the largest in nine years. Scientists study these images to better understand the complex electromagnetic system causing the constant movement on the sun, which can ultimately have an effect closer to Earth, too: Flares and another type of solar explosion called coronal mass ejections can sometimes disrupt technology in space. Moreover, studying our closest star is one way of learning about other stars in the galaxy. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. built, operates, and manages the SDO spacecraft for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.SDO: Year One here.SDO: Year 2 here.SDO: Year 3 here.Information about the individual clips used in this video is here. || ", "release_date": "2014-02-11T12:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:12.304065-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 458587, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011400/a011460/304_Year_4_blend_FINAL_16x9_1080.jpg", "filename": "304_Year_4_blend_FINAL_16x9_1080.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Massive solar flares, graceful eruptions of solar material, and an enormous sunspot make up some of the imagery captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory during its fourth year in orbit. Music: Stella Maris courtesy of Moby Gratis.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410290, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11203, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11203/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "SDO: Year 3", "description": "On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched an unprecedented solar observatory into space. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) flew up on an Atlas V rocket, carrying instruments that scientists hoped would revolutionize observations of the sun. If all went according to plan, SDO would provide incredibly high-resolution data of the entire solar disk almost as quickly as once a second. When the science team released its first images in April of 2010, SDO's data exceeded everyone's hopes and expectations, providing stunningly detailed views of the sun. In the three years since then, SDO's images have continued to show breathtaking pictures and movies of eruptive events on the sun. Such imagery is more than just pretty, they are the very data that scientists study. By highlighting different wavelengths of light, scientists can track how material on the sun moves. Such movement, in turn, holds clues as to what causes these giant explosions, which, when Earth-directed, can disrupt technology in space. SDO is the first mission in a NASA's Living With a Star program, the goal of which is to develop the scientific understanding necessary to address those aspects of the sun-Earth system that directly affect our lives and society. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. built, operates, and manages the SDO spacecraft for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.SDO: Year One here.SDO: Year 2 here.Information about the individual clips used in this video is here.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "release_date": "2013-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-02-02T00:20:19.989382-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 468557, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011203/Flux_Rope_Blend_Still.jpg", "filename": "Flux_Rope_Blend_Still.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Blended 131 angstrom and 171 angstrom images of July 19, 2012 flare and CME.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410291, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10966, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10966/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "SDO: Year 2", "description": "April 21, 2012 marks the two-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference, where NASA revealed the first images taken by the spacecraft. This video highlights just some of the amazing events witnessed in SDO's second year. || ", "release_date": "2012-04-20T08:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-03-09T00:14:31.380313-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 476549, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010900/a010966/y2.180.png", "filename": "y2.180.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 410292, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10748, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10748/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "SDO: Year One", "description": "April 21, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference, where NASA revealed the first images taken by the spacecraft.In the last year, the sun has gone from its quietest period in years to the activity marking the beginning of solar cycle 24. SDO has captured every moment with a level of detail never-before possible. The mission has returned unprecedented images of solar flares, eruptions of prominences, and the early stages of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). In this video are some of the most beautiful, interesting, and mesmerizing events seen by SDO during its first year.In the order they appear in the video the events are:1. Prominence Eruption from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on March 30, 20102. Cusp Flow from AIA in 171 Ångstroms on February 14, 20113. Prominence Eruption from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on February 25, 20114. Cusp Flow from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on February 14, 20115. Merging Sunspots from HMI in Continuum on October 24-28, 20106. Prominence Eruption and active region from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on April 30, 20107. Solar activity and plasma loops from AIA in 171 Ångstroms on March 4-8, 20118. Flowing plasma from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on April 19, 20109. Active regions from HMI in Magnetogram on March 10, 201110. Filament eruption from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on December 6, 201011. CME start from AIA in 211 Ångstroms on March 8, 201112. X2 flare from AIA in 304 Ångstroms on February 15, 2011 || ", "release_date": "2011-04-21T09:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:50.078789-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 487248, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010700/a010748/SDO_Year_One_Still_1.jpg", "filename": "SDO_Year_One_Still_1.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "SDO:Year One video. Music courtesy of Moby Gratis.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1281, "height": 713, "pixels": 913353 } } }, { "id": 410293, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 12144, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12144/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "SDO: Year 6", "description": "This ultra-high definition (3840x2160) video shows the sun in the 171 angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. It covers a time period of January 2, 2015 to January 28, 2016 at a cadence of one frame every hour, or 24 frames per day. This timelapse is repeated with narration by solar scientist Nicholeen Viall and contains close-ups and annotations. 171 angstrom light highlights material around 600,000 Kelvin and shows features in the upper transition region and quiet corona of the sun. The video is available to download here at 59.94 frames per second, double the rate YouTube currently allows for UHD content. 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It covers a time period of January 2, 2015 to January 28, 2016 at a cadence of one frame every hour, or 24 frames per day. This timelapse is repeated with narration by solar scientist Nicholeen Viall and contains close-ups and annotations. 171 angstrom light highlights material around 600,000 Kelvin and shows features in the upper transition region and quiet corona of the sun. The video is available to download here at 59.94 frames per second, double the rate YouTube currently allows for UHD content. The music is titled \"Tides\" and is from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410294, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11385, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11385/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Jewel Box Sun", "description": "Telescopes help distant objects appear bigger, but this is only one of their advantages. Telescopes can also collect light in ranges that our eyes alone cannot see, providing scientists ways of observing a whole host of material and processes that would otherwise be inaccessible. A new NASA movie of the sun based on data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, shows the wide range of wavelengths – invisible to the naked eye – that the telescope can view. SDO converts the wavelengths into an image humans can see, and the light is colorized into a rainbow of colors. As the colors sweep around the sun in the movie, viewers should note how different the same area of the sun appears. This happens because each wavelength of light represents solar material at specific temperatures. Different wavelengths convey information about different components of the sun's surface and atmosphere, so scientists use them to paint a full picture of our constantly changing and varying star.Yellow light of 5800 angstroms, for example, generally emanates from material of about 10,000 degrees F (5700 degrees C), which represents the surface of the sun. Extreme ultraviolet light of 94 angstroms, which is typically colorized in green in SDO images, comes from atoms that are about 11 million degrees F (6,300,000 degrees C) and is a good wavelength for looking at solar flares, which can reach such high temperatures. By examining pictures of the sun in a variety of wavelengths – as is done not only by SDO, but also by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory and the European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory — scientists can track how particles and heat move through the sun's atmosphere. || ", "release_date": "2013-12-17T10:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:21.380394-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 461749, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011300/a011385/SDOargoFD_rotorzoom_stand.3x3HW.02449_web.png", "filename": "SDOargoFD_rotorzoom_stand.3x3HW.02449_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Watch this video on the NASA Godard YouTube channel.", "width": 320, "height": 192, "pixels": 61440 } } }, { "id": 410295, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11255, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11255/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Three Years of SDO Images", "description": "In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun's rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day. Each image is displayed for two frames at a 29.97 frame rate.SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The images shown here are based on a wavelength of 171 angstroms, which is in the extreme ultraviolet range and shows solar material at around 600,000 Kelvin. In this wavelength it is easy to see the sun's 25-day rotation as well as how solar activity has increased over three years.During the course of the video, the sun subtly increases and decreases in apparent size. This is because the distance between the SDO spacecraft and the sun varies over time. The image is, however, remarkably consistent and stable despite the fact that SDO orbits the Earth at 6,876 miles per hour and the Earth orbits the sun at 67,062 miles per hour.Such stability is crucial for scientists, who use SDO to learn more about our closest star. These images have regularly caught solar flares and coronal mass ejections in the act, types of space weather that can send radiation and solar material toward Earth and interfere with satellites in space. SDO's glimpses into the violent dance on the sun help scientists understand what causes these giant explosions — with the hopes of some day improving our ability to predict this space weather.The four wavelength view at the end of the video shows light at 4500 angstroms, which is basically the visible light view of the sun, and reveals sunspots; light at 193 angstroms which highlights material at 1 million Kelvin and reveals more of the sun's corona; light at 304 angstroms which highlights material at around 50,000 Kelvin and shows features in the transition region and chromosphere of the sun; and light at 171 angstroms.Noteworthy events that appear briefly in the main sequence of this video:00:30;24 Partial eclipse by the moon00:31;16 Roll maneuver01:11;02 August 9, 2011 X6.9 Flare, currently the largest of this solar cycle01:28;07 Comet Lovejoy, December 15, 201101:42;29 Roll Maneuver01:51;07 Transit of Venus, June 5, 201202:28;13 Partial eclipse by the moonWatch this video on YouTube. || ", "release_date": "2013-04-22T14:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:13.276278-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 466375, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011255/Timelapse_Sun_1080-16x9.jpg", "filename": "Timelapse_Sun_1080-16x9.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Video of three years-worth of SDO data at a wavelength of 171 angstroms and then 4 different synchronized wavelengths: 171, 304, 193, and 4500. Information about the still image is below.Music: \"A Lady's Errand of Love\" - composed and performed by Martin LassFor complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410296, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11095, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11095/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "August 31, 2012 Magnificent CME", "description": "On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, with a glancing blow. causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3. || ", "release_date": "2012-09-04T14:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:48.922764-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 472497, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011000/a011095/304-171_Overlay_Blend_Crop.jpg", "filename": "304-171_Overlay_Blend_Crop.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "An overlay blended version of the 304 and 171 angstrom wavelengths. Cropped.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410297, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11112, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11112/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Gradient Sun", "description": "Watching a particularly beautiful movie of the sun helps show how the lines between science and art can sometimes blur. But there is more to the connection between the two disciplines: science and art techniques are often quite similar, indeed one may inform the other or be improved based on lessons from the other arena. One such case is a technique known as a \"gradient filter\" — recognizable to many people as an option available on a photo-editing program. Gradients are, in fact, a mathematical description that highlights the places of greatest physical change in space. A gradient filter, in turn, enhances places of contrast, making them all the more obviously different, a useful tool when adjusting photos. Scientists, too, use gradient filters to enhance contrast, using them to accentuate fine structures that might otherwise be lost in the background noise. On the sun, for example, scientists wish to study a phenomenon known as coronal loops, which are giant arcs of solar material constrained to travel along that particular path by the magnetic fields in the sun's atmosphere. Observations of the loops, which can be more or less tangled and complex during different phases of the sun's 11-year activity cycle, can help researchers understand what's happening with the sun's complex magnetic fields, fields that can also power great eruptions on the sun such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections. The images here show an unfiltered image from the sun next to one that has been processed using a gradient filter. Note how the coronal loops are sharp and defined, making them all the more easy to study. On the other hand, gradients also make great art. Watch the movie to see how the sharp loops on the sun next to the more fuzzy areas in the lower solar atmosphere provide a dazzling show. || ", "release_date": "2012-10-18T12:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:41.939664-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 471456, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011100/a011112/180gradient.png", "filename": "180gradient.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Gradient Sun VideoFor complete transcript, click here.To watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube Channel, click here.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 410298, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11168, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11168/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "SDO Sees Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun", "description": "Eruptive events on the sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and some with complex moving structures in association with changes in magnetic field lines that loop up into the sun's atmosphere, the corona. On July 19, 2012, an eruption occurred on the sun that produced all three. A moderately powerful solar flare exploded on the sun's lower right hand limb, sending out light and radiation. Next came a CME, which shot off to the right out into space. And then, the sun treated viewers to one of its dazzling magnetic displays — a phenomenon known as coronal rain. Over the course of the next day, hot plasma in the corona cooled and condensed along strong magnetic fields in the region. Magnetic fields, themselves, are invisible, but the charged plasma is forced to move along the lines, showing up brightly in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 angstroms, which highlights material at a temperature of about 50,000 Kelvin. This plasma acts as a tracer, helping scientists watch the dance of magnetic fields on the sun, outlining the fields as it slowly falls back to the solar surface. The footage in this video was collected by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's AIA instrument. SDO collected one frame every 12 seconds, and the movie plays at 30 frames per second, so each second in this video corresponds to 6 minutes of real time. The video covers 12:30 a.m. EDT to 10:00 p.m. EDT on July 19, 2012.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "release_date": "2013-02-20T10:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:23.303233-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 469204, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011100/a011168/Raining_Loops_Still_2.jpg", "filename": "Raining_Loops_Still_2.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "On July 19, 2012, an eruption occurred on the sun that produced a moderately powerful solar flare and a dazzling magnetic display known as coronal rain. Hot plasma in the corona cooled and condensed along strong magnetic fields in the region. Magnetic fields, are invisible, but the charged plasma is forced to move along the lines, showing up brightly in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 angstroms, and outlining the fields as it slowly falls back to the solar surface.Music: \"Thunderbolt\" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of artist.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410299, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11379, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11379/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Filament Eruption Creates 'Canyon of Fire' on the Sun", "description": "A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular fashion. The 200,000 mile long filament ripped through the sun's atmosphere, the corona, leaving behind what looks like a canyon of fire. The glowing canyon traces the channel where magnetic fields held the filament aloft before the explosion. Visualizers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. combined two days of satellite data to create a short movie of this gigantic event on the sun.In reality, the sun is not made of fire, but of something called plasma: particles so hot that their electrons have boiled off, creating a charged gas that is interwoven with magnetic fields. These images were captured on Sept. 29-30, 2013, by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which constantly observes the sun in a variety of wavelengths. Different wavelengths help capture different aspect of events in the corona. The red images shown in the movie help highlight plasma at temperatures of 90,000° F and are good for observing filaments as they form and erupt. The yellow images, showing temperatures at 1,000,000° F, are useful for observing material coursing along the sun's magnetic field lines, seen in the movie as an arcade of loops across the area of the eruption. The browner images at the beginning of the movie show material at temperatures of 1,800,000° F, and it is here where the canyon of fire imagery is most obvious. By comparing this with the other colors, one sees that the two swirling ribbons moving farther away from each other are, in fact, the footprints of the giant magnetic field loops, which are growing and expanding as the filament pulls them upward. || ", "release_date": "2013-10-24T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:37.825752-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 461871, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011300/a011379/Canyon_of_Fire171-304-screen-matte.jpg", "filename": "Canyon_of_Fire171-304-screen-matte.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Short video with music. 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Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410303, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10801, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10801/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Massive Solar Eruption Close-up", "description": "On June 7, 2011 the Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME). The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back down looking as if it covered an area almost half the solar surface.SDO observed the flare's peak at 1:41 AM ET. SDO recorded these images in extreme ultraviolet light that show a very large eruption of cool gas. It is somewhat unique because at many places in the eruption there seems to be even cooler material — at temperatures less than 80,000 K.This video uses the full-resolution 4096 x 4096 pixel images at a one minute time cadence to provide the highest quality, finest detail version possible.It is interesting to compare the event in different wavelengths because they each see different temperatures of plasma. See the transcript for more notes on this.Frames for each wavelength are available on these separate pages: 304, 171, 211, and1700. || ", "release_date": "2011-06-30T09:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:43.647990-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 484743, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010800/a010801/June_7_Still_1_web.png", "filename": "June_7_Still_1_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Short video showing the eruption in various wavelengths and magnifications.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 371258, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/sdo/#media_group_371258", "widget": "Tile gallery", "title": "Produced Videos", "caption": "", "description": "", "items": [ { "id": 427605, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 14592, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14592/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Largest Flare yet from Solar Cycle 25", "description": "On May 14, 2024, the Sun emitted a strong solar flare. 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SDO sees the Sun in more than 10 distinct wavelengths of light, showing solar material at different temperatures. 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They discovered pulses in the electrified layer of the atmosphere—called the ionosphere—mirrored X-ray oscillations during a July 24, 2016 flare. Music: \"Good Chat\" by Richard Anthony D Pike on Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || flarefluxthumb.jpg (1920x1080) [846.0 KB] || flarefluxthumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.6 KB] || flarefluxthumb_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || flarefluxthumb_web.png (320x180) [85.6 KB] || 12640_Flare_Flux_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [950.0 MB] || 12640_Flare_Flux-Best.mov (1920x1080) [142.7 MB] || 12640_Flare_Flux-Good.m4v (1920x1080) [69.0 MB] || 12640_Flare_Flux-Compatible.m4v (960x540) [25.4 MB] || 12640_Flare_Flux-Compatible.webm (960x540) [7.2 MB] || 12640_Flare_Flux_9.en_US.srt [1.2 KB] || 12640_Flare_Flux_9.en_US.vtt [1.2 KB] || ", "release_date": "2017-11-16T14:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:47:12.215928-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 413605, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012600/a012640/flarefluxthumb.jpg", "filename": "flarefluxthumb.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A team of scientists —led by Laura Hayes, a solar physicist who splits her time between NASA Goddard and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland— investigated a connection between solar flares and Earth’s atmosphere. 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The 200,000 mile long filament ripped through the sun's atmosphere, the corona, leaving behind what looks like a canyon of fire. The glowing canyon traces the channel where magnetic fields held the filament aloft before the explosion. Visualizers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. combined two days of satellite data to create a short movie of this gigantic event on the sun.In reality, the sun is not made of fire, but of something called plasma: particles so hot that their electrons have boiled off, creating a charged gas that is interwoven with magnetic fields. These images were captured on Sept. 29-30, 2013, by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which constantly observes the sun in a variety of wavelengths. Different wavelengths help capture different aspect of events in the corona. The red images shown in the movie help highlight plasma at temperatures of 90,000° F and are good for observing filaments as they form and erupt. The yellow images, showing temperatures at 1,000,000° F, are useful for observing material coursing along the sun's magnetic field lines, seen in the movie as an arcade of loops across the area of the eruption. The browner images at the beginning of the movie show material at temperatures of 1,800,000° F, and it is here where the canyon of fire imagery is most obvious. By comparing this with the other colors, one sees that the two swirling ribbons moving farther away from each other are, in fact, the footprints of the giant magnetic field loops, which are growing and expanding as the filament pulls them upward. || ", "release_date": "2013-10-24T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:37.825752-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 461871, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011300/a011379/Canyon_of_Fire171-304-screen-matte.jpg", "filename": "Canyon_of_Fire171-304-screen-matte.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Short video with music. 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Extreme ultraviolet light of 94 angstroms, on the other hand, comes from atoms that are about 11 million degrees F (6,300,000 degrees C) and is a good wavelength for looking at solar flares, which can reach such high temperatures. By examining pictures of the sun in a variety of wavelengths — as is done through such telescopes as NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) — scientists can track how particles and heat move through the sun's atmosphere.We see the visible spectrum of light simply because the sun is made up of a hot gas — heat produces light just as it does in an incandescent light bulb. But when it comes to the shorter wavelengths, the sun sends out extreme ultraviolet light and x-rays because it is filled with many kinds of atoms, each of which give off light of a certain wavelength when they reach a certain temperature. Not only does the sun contain many different atoms — helium, hydrogen, iron, for example — but also different kinds of each atom with different electrical charges, known as ions. Each ion can emit light at specific wavelengths when it reaches a particular temperature. Scientists have cataloged which atoms produce which wavelengths since the early 1900s, and the associations are well documented in lists that can take up hundreds of pages.Instruments that produce conventional images of the sun focus exclusively on light around one particular wavelength, sometimes not one that is visible to the naked eye. SDO scientists, for example, chose 10 different wavelengths to observe for its Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument. Each wavelength is largely based on a single, or perhaps two types of ions — though slightly longer and shorter wavelengths produced by other ions are also invariably part of the picture. Each wavelength was chosen to highlight a particular part of the sun's atmosphere.From the sun's surface on out, the wavelengths SDO observes, measured in angstroms, are: 4500: Showing the sun's surface or photosphere. 1700: Shows surface of the sun, as well as a layer of the sun's atmosphere called the chromosphere, which lies just above the photosphere and is where the temperature begins rising. 1600: Shows a mixture between the upper photosphere and what's called the transition region, a region between the chromosphere and the upper most layer of the sun's atmosphere called the corona. The transition region is where the temperature rapidly rises. 304: This light is emitted from the chromosphere and transition region. 171: This wavelength shows the sun's atmosphere, or corona, when it's quiet. It also shows giant magnetic arcs known as coronal loops. 193: Shows a slightly hotter region of the corona, and also the much hotter material of a solar flare. 211: This wavelength shows hotter, magnetically active regions in the sun's corona. 335: This wavelength also shows hotter, magnetically active regions in the corona. 94: This highlights regions of the corona during a solar flare. 131: The hottest material in a flare. || ", "release_date": "2013-01-23T11:30:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:27.686322-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 473301, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011000/a011071/4k_Grid_Sun_FINAL_web.jpg", "filename": "4k_Grid_Sun_FINAL_web.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This collage of solar images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows how observations of the sun in different wavelengths helps highlight different aspects of the sun's surface and atmosphere. 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If one looks closely at such a crisp border, the features of the moon’s topography are visible, as is the case in this image from Oct. 7, 2010. This recently inspired two NASA visualizers to overlay a 3-dimensional model of the moon based on data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter into the shadow of the SDO image. Such a task is fairly tricky, as the visualizers — Scott Wiessinger who typically works with the SDO imagery and Ernie Wright who works with the LRO imagery — had to precisely match up data from the correct time and viewpoint for the two separate instruments. The end result is an awe-inspiring image of the sun and the moon. To start the process, the visualizers took the viewing position and time from the SDO image. This information was dropped into an LRO model that can produce the exact view of the moon from anywhere, at any time, by incorporating 6 billion individual measurements of the moon’s surface height from LRO’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter instrument. The model had to take many factors into consideration, including not only SDO’s distance and viewing angle, but also the moon’s rotation and constant motion. Wright used animation software to wrap the elevation and appearance map around a sphere to simulate the moon. The two images were put together and the overlay was exact. The mountains and valleys on the horizon of the LRO picture fit right into the shadows seen by SDO. In its own way, this served as a kind of calibration of data. It means that the SDO data on its position and time is highly accurate and that the LRO models, too, are able to accurately provide images of what’s happening at any given moment in time. 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