{ "count": 235, "next": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/api/search/?keywords=Solar+Ultraviolet&limit=100&offset=100", "previous": null, "results": [ { "id": 5015, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5015/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-08-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Small (M5) Flare from Active Region 13078", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.These movies were generated around a small M5 class solar flare that occurred on April 17, 2022 near the center of the lower hemisphere || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 4963, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4963/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fifty Days of Continuous Sun from Solar Dynamics Observatory (171A filter)", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.This movie was generated as a test case for a new movie pipeline for SDO, here's SDO AIA 171A imagery, sampled every two minutes for 50 days (April 12 through June 3, 2014), resulting in 30 minutes of continuous play (at 20 frames per second). || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 4966, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4966/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "AR 12938 - Slow Building Active Region on Left Limb", "description": "The slow build-up of a solar active region, as seen in AIA 171 Angstrom filter. 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Active Region 12994, X1.1", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.These movies were generated around an X1.1 class solar flare that occurred on April 17, 2022. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 5000, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5000/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar X-flare. May 3, 2022", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.These imagery cover the time frame of an X1.1 flare (lower left). || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 5005, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5005/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar X1.5 flare - May 10, 2022", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.This imagery is focused on an X1.5 flare on May 10, 2022. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 5008, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5008/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Peek from SDO: An Eruption on the Solar Limb", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.A large eruption occurs off the limb of the Sun (lower right) in this image sequence from May 2022. || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 12393, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12393/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-10-25T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "3D 4k for STEREO's 10th Anniversary", "description": "Longer video with four different wavelengths captured by STEREO from March 17, 2007 to April 11, 2007Music: \"Soothing\" and “Serendipity\" from ErstwhileAll tracks written and produced by Lars Leonhardwww.lars-leonhard.deWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || STEREO_10th_Still_1_print.jpg (1024x576) [118.0 KB] || STEREO_10th_Still_1.png (3840x2160) [19.0 MB] || STEREO_10th_Still_1.jpg (3840x2160) [882.8 KB] || STEREO_10th_Still_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [60.1 KB] || STEREO_10th_Still_1_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || STEREO_10th_3D_HD_1080_H264.mov (1920x1080) [1014.5 MB] || STEREO_10th_3D_Good_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [674.9 MB] || STEREO_10th_3D_Most_Compatible_1080.m4v (960x540) [276.8 MB] || STEREO_10th_3D_Most_Compatible_1080.webm (960x540) [77.2 MB] || STEREO_10th_3D_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [36.6 GB] || STEREO_10th_3D_4k_H264.mov (3840x2160) [1.3 GB] || STEREO_10th_3D_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.3 KB] || STEREO_10th_3D_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.3 KB] || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 12390, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12390/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-10-17T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's STEREO Solar Probes 10th Anniversary Live Shots", "description": "B-roll that corresponds with the live shots. || B-Roll_2.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [130.4 KB] || B-Roll_2.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [78.8 KB] || B-Roll_2.00001_web.png (320x180) [78.8 KB] || B-Roll_2.00001_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || B-Roll.webm (1280x720) [19.6 MB] || B-Roll_2.webm (1280x720) [19.5 MB] || B-Roll_2.mov (1280x720) [3.1 GB] || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 12292, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12292/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-24T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Highlights of 2016/2017", "description": "A collection of solar highlights featuring:- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)- NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission- ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)- NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission || ", "hits": 166 }, { "id": 4469, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4469/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-06-16T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dynamic Earth-A New Beginning", "description": "The visualization 'Excerpt from \"Dynamic Earth\"' has been one of the most popular visualizations that the Scientific Visualization Studio has ever created. It's often used in presentations and Hyperwall shows to illustrate the connections between the Earth and the Sun, as well as the power of computer simulation in understanding those connections.There is one part of this visualization, however, that has always seemed a little clumsy to us. The opening shot is a pullback from the limb of the sun, where the sun is represented by a movie of 304 Angstrom images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It is difficult to pull back from the limb of a flat sun image and make the sun look spherical, and the problem was made more difficult because the original sun images were in a spherical dome show format. As a result, the pullback from the sun showed some odd reprojection artifacts.The best solution to this issue was to replace the existing pullout with a new one, one which pulled directly out from the center of the solar disk. For the new beginning, we chose a series of SDO images in the 171 Angstrom channel that show a visible coronal mass ejection (CME) in the lower right corner of the solar disk. Although this is not the specific CME that is seen affecting Venus and Earth later in this visualization, its presence links the SDO animation thematically to the later solar storm. The SDO images were also brightened considerably and tinted yellow to match the common perception of the Sun as a bright yellow object (even though it is actually white).Please go to the original version of this visualization to see the complete credits and additional details. || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 12281, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12281/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-10T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "Instagram: Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth", "description": "Our sun's adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it.Some 4 billion years ago, the sun shone with only about three-quarters the brightness we see today, but its surface roiled with giant eruptions spewing enormous amounts of solar material and radiation out into space. These powerful solar explosions may have provided the crucial energy needed to warm Earth, despite the sun's faintness. The eruptions also may have furnished the energy needed to turn simple molecules into the complex molecules such as RNA and DNA that were necessary for life. The research was published in Nature Geoscience on May 23, 2016, by a team of scientists from NASA.Understanding what conditions were necessary for life on our planet helps us both trace the origins of life on Earth and guide the search for life on other planets. Until now, however, fully mapping Earth's evolution has been hindered by the simple fact that the young sun wasn't luminous enough to warm Earth.\"Back then, Earth received only about 70 percent of the energy from the sun than it does today,\" said Vladimir Airapetian, lead author of the paper and a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. \"That means Earth should have been an icy ball. Instead, geological evidence says it was a warm globe with liquid water. We call this the Faint Young Sun Paradox. Our new research shows that solar storms could have been central to warming Earth.\" || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 12235, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12235/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-05-09T20:00:00-04:00", "title": "2016 Mercury Transit Timelapse", "description": "Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music: Encompass by Mark Petrie || 2016mercurytransitthumb.jpg (1280x720) [99.4 KB] || 2016mercurytransitthumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [99.9 KB] || 2016mercurytransitthumb_thm.png (80x40) [15.6 KB] || 12235_Mercury_Transit_2016_1080_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [77.4 MB] || 12235_Mercury_Transit_2016_1080_youtube_hq.webm (1920x1080) [16.1 MB] || 12235_Mercury_Transit_2016_1080_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [77.5 MB] || 12235_Mercury_Transit_transcriptPH.en_US.srt [1.2 KB] || 12235_Mercury_Transit_transcriptPH.en_US.vtt [1.2 KB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_12235_Mercury_Transit_2016_1080_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.0 GB] || 12235_Mercury_Transit_2016_1080_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [975.3 MB] || 12235_Mercury_Transit_2016_1080.mov (1920x1080) [1.9 GB] || 12235_Mercury_Transit_2016_1080_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [25.6 MB] || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 12224, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12224/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-04-26T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s SDO Captures Stunning 4K View of April 17 Solar Flare", "description": "Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 4.17.16_flare.jpg (1280x720) [123.0 KB] || 4.17.16_flare_searchweb.png (320x180) [114.3 KB] || 4.17.16_flare_thm.png (80x40) [18.0 KB] || APPLE_TV_12224_4.17.16.flare_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [46.9 MB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_12224_4.17.16.flare_prores.mov (1280x720) [645.2 MB] || WEBM_12224_4.17.16.flare.webm (960x540) [39.1 MB] || APPLE_TV_12224_4.17.16.flare_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [47.0 MB] || 12224_4.17.16.flare4K.mov (4096x2160) [4.9 GB] || 4.17.16.en_US.srt [789 bytes] || 4.17.16.en_US.vtt [802 bytes] || YOUTUBE_HQ_12224_4.17.16.flare_youtube_hq.mov (4096x2160) [2.4 GB] || 12224_4.17.16.flare_lowres.mp4 (480x256) [13.1 MB] || ", "hits": 336 }, { "id": 12165, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12165/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-03-03T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "2016 Total Solar Eclipse Live Shots", "description": "Solar Eclipse Live Shot Roll-ins || Solar_Eclipse_Rollins_h264_print.jpg (1024x576) [28.9 KB] || Solar_Eclipse_Rollins.webmhd.webm (1280x720) [23.6 MB] || Solar_Eclipse_Rollins_h264.mov (1280x720) [499.9 MB] || Solar_Eclipse_Rollins.mov (1280x720) [1.7 GB] || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 12147, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12147/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-03-03T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "2016 Eclipse", "description": "Solar scientists Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy, Nelson Reginal, Eric Christian, and Sarah Jaeggli discuss the 2016 eclipse and how it is great preparation for the 2017 eclipse.Complete transcript available. || eclipse_promo_thumb.jpg (1280x720) [53.1 KB] || eclipse_promo_thumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [69.9 KB] || eclipse_promo_thumb_thm.png (80x40) [12.8 KB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_12147_2016.eclipse_promo_V2_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [534.5 MB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_12147_2016.eclipse_promo_V2_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.5 GB] || APPLE_TV_12147_2016.eclipse_promo_V2_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [63.3 MB] || NASA_TV_12147_2016.eclipse_promo_V2.mpeg (1280x720) [383.5 MB] || 12147_2016.eclipse_promo_V2.mov (1920x1080) [2.7 GB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_12147_2016.eclipse_promo_V2_youtube_hq.webm (1920x1080) [11.6 MB] || APPLE_TV_12147_2016.eclipse_promo_V2_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [63.4 MB] || 12147_2016_eclipse_PROMO.en_US.srt [2.0 KB] || 12147_2016_eclipse_PROMO.en_US.vtt [2.0 KB] || NASA_PODCAST_12147_2016.eclipse_promo_V2_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [21.4 MB] || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 12151, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12151/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-02-12T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA On Air: NASA's SDO Satellite Captures HD Time Lapse Of The Sun (2/12/2016)", "description": "LEAD: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory catches the sun in HD video. 1: Images shown here are in the extreme ultraviolet range. 2: The temperature of the solar material is near 1 million degrees F.3: It's easy to see the sun's rotation, 1 full rotation every 25 days. 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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. 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Again on June 25, 2015, a mid-level solar flare peaked at 4:16 a.m. EDT.NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. To see how this event may affect Earth, please visit NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center at http://spaceweather.gov, the U.S. government's official source for space weather forecasts, alerts, watches and warnings. This first flare is classified as an M6.6 flare and the second was M7.9. M-class flares are a tenth the size of the most intense flares, the X-class flares. The number provides more information about its strength. An M2 is twice as intense as an M1, an M3 is three times as intense, etc. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 4309, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4309/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-05-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Blast from the Past: A Flare from January 2012", "description": "A 1080 HD Full-Disk movie of the flare event. || Jan2012Flare_171A_stand.HD1080i.01500_print.jpg (1024x576) [69.7 KB] || Jan2012Flare_171A_stand.HD1080i.01500_searchweb.png (320x180) [47.1 KB] || Jan2012Flare_171A_stand.HD1080i.01500_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Jan2012Flare_171A_stand_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [33.7 MB] || Jan2012Flare_171A_stand_1080p30.mov (1920x1080) [86.4 MB] || Jan2012Flare_171A_stand_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [9.4 MB] || Jan2012Flare_171A_stand_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [197 bytes] || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 11868, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11868/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-05-06T09:45:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's SDO Observes a Cinco de Mayo Solar Flare", "description": "Video of May 5, 2015 X2.7 flare.Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO || May_5_2015_Flare_Still_304-171.png (1920x1080) [8.1 MB] || May_5_2015_Flare_Still_304-171.jpg (1920x1080) [415.9 KB] || May_5_2015_Flare_Still_304-171_print.jpg (1024x576) [145.7 KB] || May_5_2015_Flare_Still_304-171_web.png (320x180) [83.3 KB] || 11868_May_5_X_Flare_MPEG4_1920X1080_2997.mp4 (1920x1080) [42.2 MB] || 11868_May_5_X_Flare_H264_Good_1920x1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [4.8 MB] || 11868_May_5_X_Flare_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [23.1 MB] || 11868_May_5_X_Flare_appletv.m4v (960x540) [19.0 MB] || 11868_May_5_X_Flare_appletv_subtitles.m4v (960x540) [19.0 MB] || 11868_May_5_X_Flare_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [7.1 MB] || 11868_May_5_X_Flare_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [3.6 MB] || 11868_May_5_X_Flare_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [230 bytes] || 11868_May_5_X_Flare_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [243 bytes] || 11868_May_5_X_Flare_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [674.9 MB] || 11868_May_5_X_Flare_H264_Best_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [682.7 MB] || 11868_May_5_X_Flare_H264_Good_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [219.1 MB] || ", "hits": 116 }, { "id": 11864, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11864/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-05-01T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Phoenix Prominence Eruption", "description": "Edited video of a solar prominence seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on April 21, 2015. 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This image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and shows a blend of light from the 171 and 131 angstrom wavelengths.Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO || March_11_2015_X2pt2_Flare_171-131-crop_2.png (1920x1200) [12.7 MB] || March_11_2015_X2pt2_Flare_171-131-crop_2.jpg (1920x1200) [682.3 KB] || March_11_2015_X2pt2_Flare_171-131-crop_2_print.jpg (1024x640) [168.4 KB] || March_11_2015_X2pt2_Flare_171-131-crop_2_web.jpg (320x200) [24.0 KB] || March_11_2015_X2pt2_Flare_171-131-crop_2_searchweb.png (320x180) [118.6 KB] || March_11_2015_X2pt2_Flare_171-131-crop_2_thm.png (80x40) [10.5 KB] || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 4277, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4277/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-03-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "July 12, 2011: A Bright Limb Prominence from Solar Dynamics Observatory", "description": "HD movie of solar prominence launch in the AIA 304 angstrom filter (upper left limb of Sun). || July2011Prominence_304A_stand.HD1080i.00600_print.jpg (1024x576) [92.4 KB] || July2011Prominence_304A_stand.HD1080i.00600_searchweb.png (320x180) [45.8 KB] || July2011Prominence_304A_stand.HD1080i.00600_thm.png (80x40) [3.8 KB] || July2011Prominence_304A.HD1080.webm (1920x1080) [4.7 MB] || July2011Prominence_304A.HD1080.mov (1920x1080) [128.8 MB] || July2011Prominence_304AHD (1920x1080) [128.0 KB] || July2011Prominence_304A_stand_HD1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [45.4 MB] || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 11742, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11742/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO: Year 5", "description": "Highlights from the Solar Dynamics Observatory's five years of watching the sun.The music is \"Expanding Universe\" and \"Facing the Unknown\" both from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.Information about the individual clips used in this video is here.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO || Year_5_STILL_print.jpg (1024x576) [73.2 KB] || Year_5_STILL_1080.jpg (1920x1080) [289.2 KB] || Year_5_STILL_1080.png (1920x1080) [2.2 MB] || Year_5_STILL.png (3840x2160) [8.1 MB] || SDO_Year_5_List.jpg (2550x3300) [988.9 KB] || Year_5_STILL.jpg (3840x2160) [857.5 KB] || Year_5_STILL_web.jpg (320x180) [14.0 KB] || Year_5_STILL_searchweb.png (180x320) [31.7 KB] || Year_5_STILL_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_appletv.webm (960x540) [35.1 MB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_appletv_subtitles.m4v (960x540) [123.0 MB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_appletv.m4v (960x540) [123.2 MB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [145.5 MB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_MPEG4_1920X1080_2997.mp4 (1920x1080) [373.3 MB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_H264_Good_1280x720_2997.mov (1280x720) [737.8 MB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [50.5 MB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5.en_US.vtt [1.3 KB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5.en_US.srt [1.3 KB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_H264_Good_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.6 GB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [26.7 MB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [4.0 GB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_H264_Best_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [5.1 GB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_MPEG4_1920X1080_2997.hwshow [123 bytes] || ", "hits": 92 }, { "id": 4125, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4125/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Fast X4 Flare from February 2014", "description": "The Sun launches a fast X-ray flare in late February 2014 and is seen by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The eruption sends a bright ribbon of plasma off the limb of the Sun. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 4182, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4182/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Double Solar Flare of June 10, 2014 as Seen by SDO", "description": "Multiple flares erupted from the same active region just a few hours apart on June 10, 2014. The first flare, an M-class, erupted near the limb of the sun. Within a couple of hours, two more X-class flares erupted (see Classifying Solar Eruptions) peaked at 12:52UT. A number of smaller flares erupted from the same region before and after the largest events. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 4202, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4202/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "August 24, 2014: Magnificent M-flare", "description": "M-flares are not the most powerful flares the Sun can emit, but sometimes even they can exhibit visually exciting behavior.Here we show the lead-up to an M-flare which lauches a large amount of plasma into space. The eruption takes place starting around 12:00 UTC and launches over the next 15 minutes. But stay with it, and you'll also see some of the plasma falling back towards the Sun around 13:50 UTC. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 4211, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4211/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Just over the Limb Solar Event captured by SDO and IRIS", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 4216, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4216/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "September 2014 X-Flare", "description": "On September 10, 2014, the sun erupts with an X-flare of intensity X1.6 in the center of the solar disk. The event also launches a coronal mass ejection earthward. || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 4225, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4225/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The M7 Flare of October 2, 2014, seen from SDO", "description": "In this 171 ångstrom image, the group of coronal loops on the lower right of the solar limb launches a stream of plasma. || Oct2014Mflare_171A_stand.HD1080i.00748_print.jpg (1024x576) [68.2 KB] || Oct2014Mflare_171A_stand.HD1080i.00748_searchweb.png (320x180) [46.9 KB] || Oct2014Mflare_171A_stand.HD1080i.00748_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || Oct2014Mflare_171A_stand.HD1080i.00748_web.png (320x180) [46.9 KB] || Oct2014Mflare_171A_stand_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [23.2 MB] || Oct2014Mflare_171A (1920x1080) [128.0 KB] || Oct2014Mflare_171A_stand_720.mp4 (1280x720) [9.7 MB] || Oct2014Mflare_171A_stand_720.webmhd.webm (960x540) [2.9 MB] || Oct2014Mflare_171A_stand_360.mp4 (640x360) [2.6 MB] || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 4232, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4232/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Twelve Days of AR12192 from SDO and GOES", "description": "SDO 131 angstrom visual with overlaid plot of GOES X-ray flux during the time span. || AR12192_131_GOES.composite.01500_print.jpg (1024x1024) [274.5 KB] || AR12192_131_GOES.composite.01500_searchweb.png (320x180) [72.8 KB] || AR12192_131_GOES.composite.01500_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || AR12192_131_GOES.composite.01500_web.png (320x320) [102.2 KB] || AR12192_131_GOES-composite_1024.webm (1024x1024) [13.7 MB] || AR12192_131_GOES-composite_1024.mp4 (1024x1024) [312.6 MB] || Composite (4096x4096) [0 Item(s)] || AR12192_131_GOES-composite_1024_4232.pptx [62.0 MB] || AR12192_131_GOES-composite_1024_4232.key [64.5 MB] || AR12192_131_GOES.mp4 (4096x4096) [5.3 GB] || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 4235, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4235/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "October X-flare from Solar Dynamics Observatory", "description": "Active Region AR12192 erupts with an X-class flare in the visualization in the SDO AIA 171 angstrom filter. || Oct2014Xflare_171A_stand.HD1080i.00334_print.jpg (1024x576) [65.0 KB] || Oct2014Xflare_171A_stand.HD1080i.00334_searchweb.png (320x180) [44.3 KB] || Oct2014Xflare_171A_stand.HD1080i.00334_web.png (320x180) [44.3 KB] || Oct2014Xflare_171A_stand.HD1080i.00334_thm.png (80x40) [4.1 KB] || Oct2014Xflare_171A_stand_1080.webmhd.webm (960x540) [2.1 MB] || Oct2014Xflare_171A_stand_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [19.7 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Oct2014Xflare_171A_stand_1080.hwshow [82 bytes] || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 4244, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4244/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "December 4, 2014: M6 Flare as Seen by Solar Dynamics Observatory & GOES", "description": "SDO 131 angstrom visual with overlaid plot of GOES X-ray flux during the time span. || 20141204_131AIA-GOES.composite.00500_print.jpg (1024x1024) [337.7 KB] || 20141204_131AIA-GOES.composite.00500_searchweb.png (320x180) [70.8 KB] || 20141204_131AIA-GOES.composite.00500_web.png (320x320) [107.2 KB] || 20141204_131AIA-GOES.composite.00500_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || 20141204_131AIA-GOES_1024x1024.webm (1024x1024) [3.0 MB] || 20141204_131AIA-GOES_1024x1024.mp4 (1024x1024) [68.0 MB] || SDO131AnGOES (4096x4096) [64.0 KB] || 20141204_131AIA-GOES.mp4 (4096x4096) [1.2 GB] || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 4246, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4246/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Big Sunspot of 2014", "description": "The view from the SDO AIA 171 angstrom filter of AR 12192 moving across the solar disk. || Oct2014BigSpot_171A_stand.HD1080i.01300_print.jpg (1024x576) [64.8 KB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171A_stand.HD1080i.01300_searchweb.png (320x180) [44.4 KB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171A_stand.HD1080i.01300_web.png (320x180) [44.4 KB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171A_stand.HD1080i.01300_thm.png (80x40) [4.1 KB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171AHD (1920x1080) [256.0 KB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171A_stand_HD1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [73.8 MB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171A.HD1080.webm (1920x1080) [9.1 MB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171A.HD1080.mov (1920x1080) [218.3 MB] || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 4250, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4250/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Trebuchet Solar Eruption of February 2011", "description": "The Trebuchet eruption (upper left) as seen in the SDO AIA 304 angstrom filter. This is probably one of the more popular views of the event. || Feb2011Trebuchet_304A_stand.HD1080i.00460_print.jpg (1024x576) [101.4 KB] || Feb2011Trebuchet_304A_stand.HD1080i.00460_searchweb.png (320x180) [53.5 KB] || Feb2011Trebuchet_304A_stand.HD1080i.00460_thm.png (80x40) [4.1 KB] || Feb2011Trebuchet_304A_stand.HD1080i.00460_web.png (320x180) [53.5 KB] || AIA0304A (1920x1080) [128.0 KB] || Feb2011Trebuchet_304A_HD1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [80.6 MB] || Feb2011Trebuchet_304A_HD1080.webm (1920x1080) [7.1 MB] || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 4259, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4259/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "April 2012 Solar Flare & Eruption", "description": "Full disk movie of the flare and eruption, as seen through the 171angstrom filter. || April2012Eruption_171A_stand.HD1080i.00192_print.jpg (1024x576) [64.6 KB] || April2012Eruption_171AHD (1920x1080) [128.0 KB] || April2012Eruption_171A.HD1080i.mov (1920x1080) [57.8 MB] || April2012Eruption_171A_stand_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [22.2 MB] || April2012Eruption_171A.HD1080i.webm (1920x1080) [6.5 MB] || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 4267, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4267/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "December 2014 Sparkling X-Flare from Solar Dynamics Observatory", "description": "A view of the X-flare in the 131 angstrom filter. || Dec2014SparkleX_131A_stand.HD1080i.01300_print.jpg (1024x576) [80.6 KB] || Dec2014SparkleX_131A_stand.HD1080i.01300_searchweb.png (320x180) [42.1 KB] || Dec2014SparkleX_131A_stand.HD1080i.01300_thm.png (80x40) [4.0 KB] || Dec2014SparkleX_131A_stand_HD1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [140.7 MB] || Dec2014SparkleX_131A.HD1080.mov (1920x1080) [531.0 MB] || Dec2014SparkleX_131A (1920x1080) [256.0 KB] || Dec2014SparkleX_131A.HD1080.webm (1920x1080) [10.1 MB] || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 11762, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11762/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Five Year Time-lapse of SDO", "description": "Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel. || timelapse2.jpg (1280x720) [87.3 KB] || timelapse2_searchweb.png (320x180) [75.6 KB] || timelapse2_web.png (320x180) [75.6 KB] || timelapse2_thm.png (80x40) [19.7 KB] || G2015-012FiveYearsofSDO_MASTER_appletv.webm (960x540) [22.5 MB] || G2015-012FiveYearsofSDO_MASTER_appletv.m4v (960x540) [86.1 MB] || G2015-012FiveYearsofSDO_MASTER_appletv_subtitles.m4v (960x540) [86.0 MB] || G2015-012FiveYearsofSDO_MASTER_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [33.8 MB] || G2015-012FiveYearsofSDO_MASTER.en_US.srt [250 bytes] || G2015-012FiveYearsofSDO_MASTER.en_US.vtt [244 bytes] || G2015-012FiveYearsofSDO_MASTER_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [101.4 MB] || G2015-012FiveYearsofSDO_MASTER_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.4 GB] || G2015-012FiveYearsofSDO_MASTER_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [574.8 MB] || G2015-012FiveYearsofSDOV2.mov (1920x1080) [2.8 GB] || G2015-012FiveYearsofSDO_MASTER-H264_Best_1280x720_59.94.mov (1920x1080) [1.8 GB] || G2015-012FiveYearsofSDO_MASTER-H264_Good_1280x720_29.97.mov (1920x1080) [574.7 MB] || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 11745, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11745/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-02-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solarium - Resource Page", "description": "A child looks up at Solarium at the Goddard Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center || E_LowAngle_304_crop_print.jpg (1024x677) [110.0 KB] || E_LowAngle_304_crop.png (3938x2604) [11.3 MB] || E_LowAngle_304_crop.jpg (3938x2604) [1.8 MB] || E_LowAngle_304_crop_web.png (320x211) [82.5 KB] || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 11739, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11739/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-01-20T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Telescope on NASA's SDO Collects Its 100 Millionth Image", "description": "100 million images of the sun: The Advanced Imaging Assembly on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured its 100 millionth image of the sun on Jan. 19, 2015. The image shows the glow in the solar atmosphere of gases at about 1.5 million Kelvin. Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL || SDO_AIA_193_100Millionth_print.jpg (1024x1024) [168.6 KB] || SDO_AIA_193_100Millionth.jpeg (4096x4096) [2.4 MB] || SDO_AIA_193_100Millionth_web.jpg (320x320) [27.3 KB] || SDO_AIA_193_100Millionth_searchweb.png (320x180) [95.6 KB] || SDO_AIA_193_100Millionth_thm.png (80x40) [10.2 KB] || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 11721, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11721/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-12-22T08:30:00-05:00", "title": "Holiday Lights on the Sun", "description": "The sun emitted an X1.8-class solar flare, peaking at 7:24 p.m. EST on Dec. 19, 2014.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel. || decemberthumbnail.jpg (1280x720) [139.0 KB] || decemberthumbnail_web.jpg (320x180) [38.0 KB] || decemberthumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [119.9 KB] || decemberthumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [21.5 KB] || solarholidaylights2014V2_H264_Best_1280x720_59.94.mov (1920x1080) [714.9 MB] || solarholidaylights2014V2_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.1 GB] || solarholidaylights2014V2_appletv.m4v (960x540) [32.2 MB] || solarholidayights2014V2_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [82.5 MB] || solarholidaylights2014V2_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [37.3 MB] || solarholidaylights2014V2_appletv.webm (960x540) [8.7 MB] || solarholidaylights2014V2_appletv_subtitles.m4v (960x540) [32.2 MB] || solarholidaylights2014V2_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [13.0 MB] || decemberlightsV2.en_US.srt [633 bytes] || decemberlightsV2.en_US.vtt [646 bytes] || solarholidaylights2014V2_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [6.8 MB] || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 10158, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10158/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-11-05T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "A Series of Flares from November Active Region 12205", "description": "Cropped image of the Nov. 7, 2014 X1.6 flare, as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in a blend of 171 and 131 angstroms.Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO || 20141107_131.171blendX1.6CROP.jpg (1472x808) [143.0 KB] || 20141107_131.171blendX1.6CROP_print.jpg (1024x562) [170.0 KB] || 20141107_131.171blendX1.6CROP_searchweb.png (320x180) [118.6 KB] || 20141107_131.171blendX1.6CROP_web.png (320x175) [116.2 KB] || 20141107_131.171blendX1.6CROP_thm.png (80x40) [26.6 KB] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 11718, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11718/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-10-24T23:00:00-04:00", "title": "Giant Sunspot Continues to Erupt with Substantial Flares", "description": "Video tracking a giant sunspot from Oct. 19 - Oct. 27, 2014. The active region released many significant flares. This video highlights 5 X-class flares. 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This image shows extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the hot solar material in the sun's atmosphere. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO || Oct_21_Mflare_304-171-soft_Crop.jpg (2048x1536) [938.6 KB] || Oct_21_Mflare_304-171-soft_Crop_print.jpg (1024x768) [171.6 KB] || Oct_21_Mflare_304-171-soft_Crop_web.jpg (320x240) [26.4 KB] || Oct_21_Mflare_304-171-soft_Crop_searchweb.png (320x180) [84.6 KB] || Oct_21_Mflare_304-171-soft_Crop_thm.png (80x40) [8.5 KB] || Oct_21_Mflare_304-171-soft_Crop.tiff (2048x1536) [24.0 MB] || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 11708, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11708/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-10-16T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's IRIS Helps Explain Mysterious Heat of the Solar Atmosphere", "description": "This movie shows succeeding images from NASA’s IRIS of the same area of the sun in different wavelengths.  Each image carries information about how fast the solar material is moving, which has shown scientists that a series of loops are twisting in the sun’s lower atmosphere.Credit: NASA/IRIS/Pereira || S3_still.png (1534x1154) [1.1 MB] || S3_still_web.jpg (319x240) [22.4 KB] || S3_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [67.4 KB] || S3_still_thm.png (80x40) [8.5 KB] || S3.mov (768x576) [2.8 MB] || S3.webmhd.webm (960x540) [1.8 MB] || ", "hits": 109 }, { "id": 11705, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11705/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-10-06T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's SDO Watches Giant Filament on the Sun", "description": "A snaking, extended filament of solar material currently lies on the front of the sun— some 1 million miles across from end to end. Filaments are clouds of solar material suspended above the sun by powerful magnetic forces. Though notoriously unstable, filaments can last for days or even weeks.NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which watches the sun 24 hours a day, has observed this gigantic filament for several days as it rotated around with the sun. If straightened out, the filament would reach almost across the whole sun, about 1 million miles or 100 times the size of Earth.SDO captured images of the filament in numerous wavelengths, each of which helps highlight material of different temperatures on the sun. By looking at any solar feature in different wavelengths and temperatures, scientists can learn more about what causes such structures, as well as what catalyzes their occasional giant eruptions out into space.Look at the images to see how the filament appears in different wavelengths. The brownish combination image was produced by blending two wavelengths of extreme UV light with a wavelength of 193 and 335 angstroms. The red image shows the 304 angstrom wavelength of extreme UV light. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 11670, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11670/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-10-03T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sun Emits Mid-Level Flare on October 2, 2014", "description": "The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 3:01 p.m. EDT on Oct. 2, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun 24-hours a day, captured images of the flare. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.This flare is classified as an M7.3 flare. M-class flares are one-tenth as powerful as the most powerful flares, which are designated X-class flares. || ", "hits": 97 }, { "id": 11558, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11558/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-09-24T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Many Views of a Massive CME", "description": "On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space. It soon passed one of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, spacecraft, which clocked the CME as traveling between 1,800 and 2,200 miles per second as it left the sun. This was the fastest CME ever observed by STEREO. Two other observatories – NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the joint European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory — witnessed the eruption as well. The July 2012 CME didn't move toward Earth, but watching an unusually strong CME like this gives scientists an opportunity to observe how these events originate and travel through space. STEREO's unique viewpoint from the sides of the sun combined with the other two observatories watching from closer to Earth helped scientists create models of the entire July 2012 event. They learned that an earlier, smaller CME helped clear the path for the larger event, thus contributing to its unusual speed. Such data helps advance our understanding of what causes CMEs and improves modeling of similar CMEs that could be Earth-directed. || ", "hits": 131 }, { "id": 11651, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11651/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-09-11T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "September 10, 2014 X1.6 flare", "description": "The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:48 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground. However — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.This flare is classified as an X1.6 class flare. \"X-class\" denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, etc. || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 11613, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11613/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-08-01T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "EUNIS Sees Evidence for Nanoflare Heating", "description": "Scientists have recently gathered some of the strongest evidence to date to explain what makes the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface. The new observations show temperatures in the atmosphere so hot that only one current theory explains them: something called nanoflares – a constant peppering of impulsive bursts of heating, none of which can be individually detected — provide the mysterious extra heat. These new observations come from just six minutes worth of data from one of NASA's least expensive type of missions, a sounding rocket. The EUNIS mission, short for Extreme Ultraviolet Normal Incidence Spectrograph, launched on April 23, 2013, gathering a new snapshot of data every 1.3 seconds to track the properties of material over a wide range of temperatures in the complex solar atmosphere. The unique capabilities of EUNIS enabled researchers to obtain these results. The spectrograph was able to clearly and unambiguously distinguish the observations representing the extremely hot material – emission lines showing light with a wavelength of 592.6 angstrom, where an angstrom is the size of an atom — from a very nearby light wavelength of 592.2 angstroms. || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 4172, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4172/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "As Seen by SDO: The Carrington-Class CME of 2012", "description": "While SDO did not have a direct view of the region which launched the large coronal mass ejection (CME) of July 23, 2012, it still managed to catch a glimpse of the solar plasma as it launched into space. The eruption becomes visible at timestamp 02:14:24 UTC in the lower right side of the movies below. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 4177, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4177/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "As Seen by STEREO-A: The Carrington-Class CME of 2012", "description": "STEREO-A, at a position along Earth's orbit where it has an unobstructed view of the far side of the Sun, could clearly observe possibly the most powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) of solar cyle 24 on July 23, 2012. The visualizations on this page cover the entire day.We see the flare erupt in the lower right quadrant of the solar disk from a large active region. The material is launched into space in a direction towards STEREO-A. This creates the ring-like 'halo' CME visible in the STEREO-A coronagraph, COR-2 (blue circular image).As the CME expands beyond the field of view of the COR-2 imager, the high energy particles reach STEREO-A, creating the snow-like noise in the image. The particles also strike the HI-2 imager (blue square) brightening the image.The HI-1 imager has had 'bloom removal' enabled and filled with contents of the immediately previous HI-1 image, which creates a linear artifact above and below bright stars and planets. || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 4178, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4178/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "As Seen by STEREO-B: The Carrington-Class CME of 2012", "description": "Like SDO, STEREO-B did not have a direct view of the coronal mass ejection (CME) launched by the sun on July 23, 2012. However, the active region involved was very close to the limb of the sun (lower left quadrant) and STEREO-B provided an excellent view of plasma launched in both ultraviolet light and the white-light coronagraph. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 11605, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11605/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-07-09T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Firework Flare", "description": "This movie from NASA’s SDO shows a solar flare — the bright light on the left side of the sun — on July 8, 2014. An eruption of solar material can also be seen arcing up and away. After it left the sun, this became a coronal mass ejection, a giant cloud of solar material, headed toward Mars. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 11564, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11564/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-06-10T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sun Emits 3 X-class Flares in 2 Days", "description": "The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:42 a.m. EDT on June 10, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory – which typically observes the entire sun 24 hours a day — captured images of the flare. This flare is classified as an X2.2 flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, etc.About one hour later, the sun released a second X-class flare, peaking at 8:52 a.m. EDT on June 10, 2014. This is classified as an X1.5 flare. || ", "hits": 39 }, { "id": 11556, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11556/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-05-30T09:30:00-04:00", "title": "A First for NASA's IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material", "description": "A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014, and NASA's newest solar observatory caught it in extraordinary detail. This was the first CME observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, which launched in June 2013 to peer into the lowest levels of the sun's atmosphere with better resolution than ever before. Watch the movie to see how a curtain of solar material erupts outward at speeds of 1.5 million miles per hour.IRIS must commit to pointing at certain areas of the sun at least a day in advance, so catching a CME in the act involves some educated guesses and a little bit of luck. \"We focus in on active regions to try to see a flare or a CME,\" said Bart De Pontieu, the IRIS science lead at Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. \"And then we wait and hope that we'll catch something. This is the first clear CME for IRIS so the team is very excited.\" The IRIS imagery focuses in on material of 30,000 Kelvin at the base, or foot points, of the CME. The line moving across the middle of the movie is the entrance slit for IRIS's spectrograph, an instrument that can split light into its many wavelengths – a technique that ultimately allows scientists to measure temperature, velocity and density of the solar material behind the slit. The field of view for this imagery is about five Earth's wide and about seven and a half Earth's tall. The IRIS Observatory was designed by and the mission is managed by Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory. NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, provides mission operations and ground data systems. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the Explorers Program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 4151, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4151/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-05-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Looking Back: The Record Flare for Solar Cycle 24", "description": "On August 9, 2011 at 3:48 a.m. EDT, the sun emitted an Earth-directed X6.9 flare, as measured by the NOAA GOES satellite. These gigantic bursts of radiation cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to harm humans on the ground, however they can disrupt the atmosphere and disrupt GPS and communications signals. In this case, it appears the flare is strong enough to potentially cause some radio communication blackouts. It also produced increased solar energetic proton radiation — enough to affect humans in space if they do not protect themselves.As of March 2014, this flare is the largest of solar cycle 24.Here are the raw images used in creating the components in Sun Unleashes X6.9 Class Flare on August 9, 2011 || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 4164, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4164/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-05-07T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Multi-Mission View of a Solar Flare: Optical to Gamma-rays", "description": "To improve our understanding of complex phenomena such as solar flares, a wide variety of tools are needed. In the case of astronomy, those tools enable us to analyze the light in many different wavelengths and many different ways.Many different instruments are observing the Sun almost continuously, both from space and on the surface of the Earth. On March 29, 2014, the Dunn Solar Telescope at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico was observing a solar active region and requested other observatories to watch as well. As a result of this coordination, the region was being observed by a large number of different instruments, ground and space-based, when it subsequently erupted with an X-class flare. This visualization presents various combinations of the datasets collected during this effort. The color text represents the dominant color of the dataset in the imagery.Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO): HMI (617.1nm). This data represents the Sun is visible light similar to how we see it from the ground.Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO): AIA (17.1nm). Solar ultraviolet emission, which can only be seen from space, reveals plasma flowing, and escaping, along magnetic fields.IRIS Slit-Jaw Imager: 140.0nm. This high-resolution imager also contains a slit (the dark vertical line in the center of the field) which directs the light to an ultraviolet spectrometer which is used to extract even more information about the light. The imager slews back-and-forth across the region, providing spectra over a larger area of the Sun.Hinode/X-ray Telescope: x-ray band. Indicates very hot plasma.RHESSI: 50-100 keV. High-energy gamma-ray emission. Emission from these locations represent the very highest energy photons from the flare event.Dunn Solar Telescope: G-band filter. This filter, showing much of the solar surface (photosphere) in visible light, provides a detailed view of the sunspots and convection cells. The view moves because the instrument was repointed several times during the observation.Dunn Solar Telescope: IBIS ( Hydrogen alpha, 656.3nm; Calcium 854.2 nm; Iron 630.15nm). This is the small rectangular view within the Dunn Solar Telescope G-band view. This instrument can tune the wavelength during the observation, which provides views of the solar atmosphere at different depths. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 11528, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11528/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-04-25T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "X-class Flare Erupts from Sun on April 24", "description": "The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 8:27 p.m. EDT on April 24, 2014. Images of the flare were captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.This flare is classified as an X1.4 flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, etc. || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 11517, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11517/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-04-04T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Graceful Eruption", "description": "On April 2, 2014, the sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 10:05 a.m. EDT, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured imagery of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.This video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the flare in a blend of two wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light: 304 angstroms and 171 angstroms, colorized in red and yellow, respectively. || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 4150, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4150/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-03-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "January 2012 - Arcade of Coronal Loops from SDO", "description": "An arcade of coronal loops forms and erupts - upper right quadrant of disk. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 11497, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11497/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-02-28T11:30:00-05:00", "title": "Giant Sunspot Makes Third Trip Across the Sun", "description": "A giant sunspot – a magnetically strong and complex region on the sun's surface – has just appeared over the sun's horizon. This is the third trip for this region across the face of the sun, which takes approximately 27 days to make a complete rotation.Scientists track sunspots that are part of active regions, which often produce large explosions on the sun such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. Each time an active region appears it is assigned a number. Active regions that have survived their trip around the back of the sun and reappear are assigned a new number – a convention left over from when we had no telescopes observing the far side of the sun and so could not be sure that the new sunspot was indeed the same as the old one. This active region is currently labeled AR11990. Last time around it was labeled AR11967and its first time it was AR11944.During its three trips thus far, this region has produced two significant solar flares, labeled as the strongest kind of flare, an X-class. It has also produced numerous mid-level and smaller flares. While many sunspots do not last more than a couple of weeks, there have been sunspots known to be stable for many months at a time.Studying what causes active regions to appear and disappear over time, as well as how long they remain stable, is key to understanding the origins of space weather that can impact Earth’s technological infrastructure. || ", "hits": 94 }, { "id": 11493, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11493/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-02-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's SDO Provides Images of Significant Solar Flare", "description": "The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:49 p.m. EST on Feb. 24, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which keeps a constant watch on the sun, captured images of the event.This flare is classified as an X4.9-class flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, etc. || ", "hits": 100 }, { "id": 4146, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4146/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-21T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "IRIS close-up of a solar flare", "description": "The Slit-Jaw Imager (SJI) aboard IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) observes a tiny region of the Sun at an image resolution (0.166 arc-seconds per pixel) almost four times higher than the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) (0.6 arc-seconds per pixel). In addition, IRIS has a narrow slit in the imaging plane (the thin, dark vertical line in the center of the inset) which directs some of the light to a spectrograph which allows solar physicists to determine velocity and temperature of the solar plasma.In this zoom-in from a full-disk view of the Sun from SDO, the imager is observering the Sun at a wavelength of 133nm (1330 angstroms). The imager field-of-view is moved across the solar disk in four steps, allowing the slit to pass over different regions of the Sun to determine the properties of the plasma.Note: IRIS and SDO are in very different orbits. You can see samples of the orbits at The 2013 Earth-Orbiting Heliophysics Fleet. IRIS is in a near-Earth orbit, while SDO is much higher at geosynchronous orbit. This difference in camera location creates a small parallax between the images composited from these two cameras. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 11483, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11483/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-02-21T09:45:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's IRIS Spots Its Largest Solar Flare", "description": "On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013. Solar flares are bursts of x-rays and light that stream out into space, but scientists don't yet know the fine details of what sets them off. IRIS peers into a layer of the sun's lower atmosphere just above the surface, called the chromosphere, with unprecedented resolution. However, IRIS can't look at the entire sun at the same time, so the team must always make decisions about what region might provide useful observations. On Jan. 28, scientists spotted a magnetically active region on the sun and focused IRIS on it to see how the solar material behaved under intense magnetic forces. At 2:40 p.m. EST, a moderate flare, labeled an M-class flare — which is the second strongest class flare after X-class – erupted from the area, sending light and x-rays into space. IRIS studies the layer of the sun’s atmosphere called the chromosphere that is key to regulating the flow of energy and material as they travel from the sun's surface out into space. Along the way, the energy heats up the upper atmosphere, the corona, and sometimes powers solar events such as this flare. IRIS is equipped with an instrument called a spectrograph that can separate out the light it sees into its individual wavelengths, which in turn correlates to material at different temperatures, velocities and densities. The spectrograph on IRIS was pointed right into the heart of this flare when it reached its peak, and so the data obtained can help determine how different temperatures of plasma flow where, giving scientists more insight into how flares work. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 11460, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11460/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-02-11T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO: Year 4", "description": "The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. 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. || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 4051, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4051/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Boiling Solar Prominence from February 2013", "description": "A long-lived prominence (see Wikipedia) hovers over the limb of the Sun (about the 4-5 o'clock position) before breaking up. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 4065, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4065/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The X-Class Flare of January 2014", "description": "Early January of 2014 saw one of the largest sunspot groups of solar cycle 24 and some X-class flares near the center of the solar disk from active region AR 11943. These flares launched a few small coronal mass ejections towards the Earth. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 4066, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4066/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO's Multi-wavelength View of a May 2013 Solar Flare", "description": "An active region on the left limb of the Sun launches a large flare and coronal material in this sequence from early May 2013. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 4089, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4089/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "June 2013's 'Busy Sun'", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 4090, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4090/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Prominence from SDO: July 1, 2013", "description": "A large solar prominence, caught in a tug-of-war between solar gravity pulling it downward and magnetic gradients lifting upward, hovers over the limb of the Sun (left) before eventually launching into space. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 4121, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4121/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "October 2013 X-Flare from Solar Dynamics Observatory", "description": "Another Halloween space weather fest? October-November 2003 of the previous solar cycle saw some of the most energetic solar events since space flight (see Halloween Solar Storms 2003: A Multi-Mission View. Halloween of 2013 has seen a similar round of high solar activity, with energetic flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 4123, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4123/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO Eclipses & Transits: March 2013", "description": "The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) orbits the Earth in a geosynchronous orbit (see The 2012 Earth-Orbiting Heliophysics Fleet and RBSP & SDO: Newest Heliophysics Missions) which keeps the spacecraft in contact with the ground station. This motion of the spacecraft around Earth, combined with the motion of the Moon around Earth, and the motion of Earth around the Sun creates opportunities for eclipses and transits involving these other bodies (see Lunar Transit from Solar Dynamics Observatory (2010). On rare occasions, SDO can see an eclipse and transit on the same day, as illustrated in these images collected from March 11, 2013.These eclipses and transits are not just visually interesting, but important for mission planners as SDO receives much of the electrical power needed to function through solar panels. During these times, SDO needs to operate safely with power from onboard batteries until the time that full solar power can be restored. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 4132, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4132/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "May 2013: 'Light bulb'-shaped prominence", "description": "The active region on the solar limb (left side) generates a large bulb-shaped prominence before demonstrating more energetic activity. See SDO View of a May 2013 Solar Flare. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 4133, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4133/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "February 2013: The Busy Sun", "description": "Even near solar maximum, with sunspots dotting the photosphere, the Sun can look tranquil and serene in visible light. In the case of these images from the HMI instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the only obvious changes are the constant shimmering of the solar disk due to the bubbling of solar granulation.But in ultraviolet light, in particular the 30.4 nanometer line of the helium ion, we see much more activity. Dark, wispy lines of cooler solar filaments (the term used for solar prominences when seen against the disk) stretch across the disk. The same structures, seen against the fainter glow of the solar corona, resemble slowly evolving flames on the limb of the Sun. Solar active regions surrounding the sunspots, appear bright in ultraviolet light. || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 4136, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4136/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "More Solar Excitement - October 2013", "description": "Solar activity in October 2013 continues with several active regions, particularly on the limb, launching solar material into space. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 11463, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11463/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-01-30T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO Lunar Transit, Prominence Eruption, and M-Class Flare", "description": "On Jan 30, 2014, beginning at 8:31 a.m EST, the moon moved between NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, and the sun, giving the observatory a view of a partial solar eclipse from space. Such a lunar transit happens two to three times each year. This one lasted two and one half hours, which is the longest ever recorded. When the next one will occur is as of yet unknown due to planned adjustments in SDO's orbit.Note in the pictures how crisp the horizon is on the moon, a reflection of the fact that the moon has no atmosphere around it to distort the light from the sun.The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 11:11 a.m. EST on Jan. 30, 2014. Images of the flare were captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, shortly after the observatory witnessed a lunar transit. The black disk of the moon can be seen in the lower right of the images. || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 11136, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11136/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-01-07T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "Sun unleashes first X-class flare of 2014", "description": "The sun emitted a significant solar flare peaking at 1:32 p.m. EST on Jan.7, 2014. This is the first significant flare of 2014, and follows on the heels of mid-level flare earlier in the day. Each flare was centered over a different area of a large sunspot group currently situated at the center of the sun, about half way through its 14-day journey across the front of the disk along with the rotation of the sun. This flare is classified as an X1.2-class flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, etc. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 4128, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4128/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-12-24T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Dynamics Observatory - Argo view - Slices of SDO", "description": "Argos (or Argus Panoptes) was the 100-eyed giant in Greek mythology (wikipedia).While the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has significantly less than 100 eyes, (see \"SDO Jewelbox: The Many Eyes of SDO\"), seeing connections in the solar atmosphere through the many filters of SDO presents a number of interesting challenges. This visualization experiment illustrates a mechanism for highlighting these connections. This visualization is a variation of the original Solar Dynamics Observatory - Argo view. In this case, the different wavelength filters are presented in three sets around the Sun at full 4Kx4K resolution. This enables monitoring of changes in time over all wavelengths at any location around the limb of the Sun. The wavelengths presented are: 617.3nm optical light from SDO/HMI. From SDO/AIA we have 170nm (pink), then 160nm (green), 33.5nm (blue), 30.4nm (orange), 21.1nm (violet), 19.3nm (bronze), 17.1nm (gold), 13.1nm (aqua) and 9.4nm (green).We've locked the camera to rotate the view of the Sun so each wedge-shaped wavelength filter passes over a region of the Sun. As the features pass from one wavelength to the next, we can see dramatic differences in solar structures that appear in different wavelengths.Filaments extending off the limb of the Sun which are bright in 30.4 nanometers, appear dark in many other wavelengths.Sunspots which appear dark in optical wavelengths, are festooned with glowing ribbons in ultraviolet wavelengths.small flares, invisible in optical wavelengths, are bright ribbons in ultraviolet wavelengths.if we compare the visible light limb of the Sun with the 170 nanometer filter on the left, with the visible light limb and the 9.4 nanometer filter on the right, we see that the 'edge' is at different heights. This effect is due to the different amounts of absorption, and emission, of the solar atmosphere in ultraviolet light.in far ultraviolet light, the photosphere is dark since the black-body spectrum at a temperature of 5700 Kelvin emits very little light in this wavelength. || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 4117, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4117/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-12-17T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Dynamics Observatory - Argo view", "description": "Argos (or Argus Panoptes) was the 100-eyed giant in Greek mythology (wikipedia).While the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has significantly less than 100 eyes, (see \"SDO Jewelbox: The Many Eyes of SDO\"), seeing connections in the solar atmosphere through the many filters of SDO presents a number of interesting challenges. This visualization experiment illustrates a mechanism for highlighting these connections.The wavelengths presented are: 617.3nm optical light from SDO/HMI. From SDO/AIA we have 170nm (pink), then 160nm (green), 33.5nm (blue), 30.4nm (orange), 21.1nm (violet), 19.3nm (bronze), 17.1nm (gold), 13.1nm (aqua) and 9.4nm (green).We've locked the camera to rotate the view of the Sun so each wedge-shaped wavelength filter passes over a region of the Sun. As the features pass from one wavelength to the next, we can see dramatic differences in solar structures that appear in different wavelengths.Filaments extending off the limb of the Sun which are bright in 30.4 nanometers, appear dark in many other wavelengths.Sunspots which appear dark in optical wavelengths, are festooned with glowing ribbons in ultraviolet wavelengths.Small flares, invisible in optical wavelengths, are bright ribbons in ultraviolet wavelengths.If we compare the visible light limb of the Sun with the 170 nanometer filter on the left, with the visible light limb and the 9.4 nanometer filter on the right, we see that the 'edge' is at different heights. This effect is due to the different amounts of absorption, and emission, of the solar atmosphere in ultraviolet light.In far ultraviolet light, the photosphere is dark since the black-body spectrum at a temperature of 5700 Kelvin emits very little light in this wavelength. || ", "hits": 200 }, { "id": 11385, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11385/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-12-17T10:00:00-05:00", "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. || ", "hits": 122 }, { "id": 11384, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11384/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-21T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "How to Cook a Comet", "description": "A comet's journey through the solar syste is perilous and violent. Before it reaches Mars - at some 230 million miles away from the sun - the radiation of the sun begins to cook off the frozen water ice directly into gas. This is called sublimation. It is the first step toward breaking the comet apart. If it survives this, the intense radiation and pressure closer to the sun could destroy it altogether.Animators at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. created this short movie showing how the sun can cook a comet. Such a journey is currently being made by Comet ISON. It began its trip from the Oort cloud region of our solar system and is now traveling toward the sun. The comet will reach its closest approach to the sun on Thanksgiving Day — Nov. 28, 2013 — skimming just 730,000 miles above the sun’s surface. If it comes around the sun without breaking up, the comet will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere with the naked eye, and from what we see now, ISON is predicted to be a particularly bright and beautiful comet. Even if the comet does not survive, tracking its journey will help scientists understand what the comet is made of, how it reacts to its environment, and what this explains about the origins of the solar system. Closer to the sun, watching how the comet and its tail interact with the vast solar atmosphere can teach scientists more about the sun itself. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 11403, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11403/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-08T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "MAVEN National Air and Space Museum Presentation", "description": "Ancient riverbeds, crater lakes and flood channels all attest to Mars's warm, watery past. So how did the Red Planet evolve from a once hospitable world into the cold, dry desert that we see today? One possibility is that Mars lost its early atmosphere, allowing its water to escape into space, and NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft will investigate just that. On September 25, 2013, MAVEN Principal Investigator Bruce Jakosky delivered a presentation at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, discussing NASA's next mission to Mars. An edited version appears below. || ", "hits": 118 }, { "id": 11037, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11037/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-05T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "MAVEN: Mars Atmospheric Loss", "description": "When you take a look at Mars, you probably wouldn't think that it looks like a nice place to live. It's dry, it's dusty, and there's practically no atmosphere. But some scientists think that Mars may have once looked like a much nicer place to live, with a thicker atmosphere, cloudy skies, and possibly even liquid water flowing over the surface. So how did Mars transform from a warm, wet world to a cold, barren desert? NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will give us a clearer idea of how Mars lost its atmosphere (and thus its water), and scientists think that several processes have had an impact.Learn more about these processes in the videos below! || ", "hits": 309 }, { "id": 11387, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11387/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-10-29T16:30:00-04:00", "title": "Five Days of Flares and CMEs", "description": "This movie shows 23 of the 26 M- and X-class flares on the sun between 18:00 UT Oct. 23 and 15:00 UT Oct. 28, 2013, as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. It also shows the coronal mass ejections — great clouds of solar material bursting off the sun into space — during that time as captured by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 11379, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11379/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-10-24T10:00:00-04:00", "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. || ", "hits": 123 }, { "id": 30362, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30362/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-22T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Full Map of the Sun's Surface", "description": "This movie shows the evolution of the Sun's entire surface as seen in extreme ultraviolet light (304 angstroms) for the time period Jan 1 - Sep 27, 2012. The movie was made by combining nearly simultaneous view of the Sun from three spacecraft: STEREO AHEAD and BEHIND (seeing the Sun's far side) and the Solar Dynamic Observer (seeing the near side). This EUV light comes primarily from the solar chromosphere. The bright patches are active regions. Many dark prominence eruptions can also be seen. The data is plotted in Carrington coordinates which are \"fixed\" to the surface of the Sun. In this coordinate system, the active regions tend to stay at the same location. However, the Sun's rotation rate actually changes with latitude and this can be seen in the movie. || ", "hits": 572 }, { "id": 30072, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30072/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Heliophysics Fleet Captures Eruption and CME", "description": "On May 1, 2013, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) watched as an active region (left) of the sun erupted with a huge cloud of solar material—a heated, charged gas called plasma. This eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, sent the plasma streaming out through the solar system. Viewing the sun in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 Ångström, SDO provided a beautiful view of the initial arc as it left the solar surface. In addition to the images captured by SDO the CME was also observed by the European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). SOHO houses two overlapping Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) telescopes where the bright sun is blocked by a disk so it does not overpower the fainter solar atmosphere. Both LASCO telescopes, named C2 and C3, observed the CME. The LASCO C2 coronagraph shows the region out to about 2.5 million miles, while the LASCO C3 coronagraph expands even farther out to around 13.5 million miles. Both of these instruments show the CME as it expands and becomes fainter on its trip away from the sun. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 4101, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4101/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-09-20T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "August 2013: SDO Observes Large Coronal Hole", "description": "On the Sun, coronal holes represent regions where the solar magnetic field does not connect back to the Sun. In these cases, the magnetic field guides the charged particles of the solar wind into distant space, forming the fast solar wind. || ", "hits": 23 } ] }