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After reaching the current cycle’s most active phase in 2024 — known as solar maximum — the Sun remains in a heightened period of activity.For news of the recent flares: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/solar-cycle-25/ || ", "hits": 373 }, { "id": 5577, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5577/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-11-20T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO Sun This Week", "description": "This visualization shows SDO AIA-304 imagery from the past 7 days with a color table and image processing applied. Archive folders are provided in the Download menu.", "hits": 468 }, { "id": 14126, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14126/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-04-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "SDO Video Toolkit", "description": "The Trebuchet eruption (upper left) as seen in the SDO AIA 304 angstrom filter. 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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.Year 1 || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 4166, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4166/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "March 2014: Erupting Solar Prominence", "description": "A solar filament, in the upper left quadrant of the image, erupts from the Sun (about time stamp 2014 March 29 01:54:00 UTC).There is a gap of 40 minutes in the data coverage, from 03:00 - 03:40 UT. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "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": 14 }, { "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": 38 }, { "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": 33 }, { "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": 22 }, { "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": 38 }, { "id": 3983, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3983/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-11-20T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Active Sun from SDO: 304 Ångstroms", "description": "The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observes the Sun with many different instruments, in many different wavelengths of light. Many of these capabilities are not possible for ground-based observatories - hence the need for a space-based observing platform.This movie is generated for a wavelength of 304 Ångstroms (30.4 nanometers) which highlights a spectral line emitted by helium atoms that have lost 1 electron (also known as helium-2 or He II) at temperatures of 50,000 K. This light is emitted from the upper transition region and the chromosphere. Solar prominences are readily visible at this wavelength.This visualization is one of a set of visualizations (others linked below) covering the same time span of 17 hours over the full wavelength range of the mission. They are setup to play synchronously on a Hyperwall, or can be run individually.The images are sampled every 36 seconds, 1/3 of the standard time-cadence for SDO. This visualization is useful for illustrating how different solar phenomena, such as sunspots and active regions, look very different in different wavelengths of light. These differences enable scientists to study them more completely, with an eventual goal of improving Space Weather forecasting. || ", "hits": 157 }, { "id": 3924, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3924/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-03-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Prominences and Filaments: June 16, 2011", "description": "Full resolution 4Kx4K frames || AIA304flames.01600.jpg (4096x4096) [4.2 MB] || AIA304flames.01600_web.png (320x320) [118.5 KB] || AIA304flames.01600_thm.png (80x40) [5.6 KB] || AIA304flames.01600_searchweb.png (320x180) [95.8 KB] || SDOAIA304_Flames.1Kx1K.mp4 (1024x1024) [42.1 MB] || SDOAIA304_Flames.2Kx2K.webmhd.webm (960x540) [10.4 MB] || SDOAIA304_Flames.2Kx2K.mp4 (2048x2048) [215.4 MB] || 4096x4096_1x1_30p (4096x4096) [0 Item(s)] || SDOAIA304_Flames.iPod.m4v (480x480) [11.9 MB] || AIA304flames.mp4 (4096x4096) [1.0 GB] || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 3828, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3828/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-12-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Dynamics Observatory - Atmospheric Imaging Assembly", "description": "The Sun's activity increases as we enter solar cycle 24. But even several years away from the peak, the Sun in ultraviolet light shows a variety of activity.This visualization consists of eight hours of SDO AIA imagery from the 30.4 nanometer filter (304 Ångstroms). This sequence plays at the full time cadence of the AIA instrument - one image every twelve seconds of real time - and showing thirty images per second on playback. || ", "hits": 161 }, { "id": 3838, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3838/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-07-01T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Incredible Solar Flare, Prominence Eruption and CME Event (304 angstroms)", "description": "On June 7, 2011, an M-2 flare occurred on the Sun which released a very large coronal mass ejection (CME). Much of the ejected material is much cooler (less than about 80,000K) and therefore appears dark against the brighter solar disk.Material which does not reach solar escape velocity can be seen falling back and striking the solar surface, sometimes triggering smaller events.This image sequence is captured at one minute intervals and designed to play synchronously with animations 3839 (171 Ångstroms), 3840 (211 Ångstroms) and 3841 (1700 Ångstroms). || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 3839, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3839/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-07-01T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Incredible Solar Flare, Prominence Eruption and CME Event (171 angstroms)", "description": "On June 7, 2011, an M-2 flare occurred on the Sun which released a very large coronal mass ejection (CME). Much of the ejected material is much cooler (less than about 80,000K) and therefore appears dark against the brighter solar disk.Material which does not reach solar escape velocity can be seen falling back and striking the solar surface, sometimes triggering smaller events.This image sequence is captured at one minute intervals and designed to play synchronously with animations 3838 (304 Ångstroms), 3840 (211 Ångstroms) and 3841 (1700 Ångstroms). || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 3840, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3840/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-07-01T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Incredible Solar Flare, Prominence Eruption and CME Event (211 angstroms)", "description": "On June 7, 2011, an M-2 flare occurred on the Sun which released a very large coronal mass ejection (CME). Much of the ejected material is much cooler (less than about 80,000K) and therefore appears dark against the brighter solar disk.Material which does not reach solar escape velocity can be seen falling back and striking the solar surface, sometimes triggering smaller events.This image sequence is captured at one minute intervals and designed to play synchronously with animations 3839 (171 Ångstroms), 3838 (304 Ångstroms) and 3841 (1700 Ångstroms). || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 3841, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3841/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-07-01T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Incredible Solar Flare, Prominence Eruption and CME Event (1700 angstroms)", "description": "On June 7, 2011, an M-2 flare occurred on the Sun which released a very large coronal mass ejection (CME). At this wavelength, very little of the ejected material is visible. However, it is possible to see locations where some of the material is falling back and striking the solar surface.This image sequence is captured at one minute intervals and designed to play synchronously with animations 3839 (171 Ångstroms), 3840 (211 Ångstroms) and 3838 (304 Ångstroms). || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 10610, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10610/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-04-28T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "SDO First Light High Resolution Stills", "description": "Stills from the AIA instrument on SDO. They show the March 30, 2010 \"First Light\" prominence eruption captured just after the AIA sensors were activated. All images are from the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, specifically the wavelengths of 304, 211, 193, and 171 Ångstroms. The stills are in multiple resolutions and are available as tiff and jpeg files. || ", "hits": 156 }, { "id": 2960, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2960/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-07-08T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Halloween Solar Storms from SOHO/EIT, 304 Angstroms", "description": "This view from SOHO/EIT in the 304 angstrom band, shows a group of active regions rotating back into view. This movie is synchronized to play with animation IDs 2959 and 2961. One obvious difference is that solar flares are not as visible at this wavelength than at the 195 angstrom band. The 304 angstrom filter was not used as frequently as the 195 angstrom filter, so this movie has more jumps in its time coverage. For more information on how X-ray solar flares are classified (B, C, M, X), visit SpaceWeather.com. || ", "hits": 19 } ] }