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The first Sun images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

submitted by Hybrid

1 decade 4 years 7 months ago

"The first images of NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) released on April 21, 2010. Launched Feb. 11, 2010, SDO is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun and its dynamic behavior. The spacecraft can produce images with clarity ten times better than high definition television and provide more comprehensive science data faster than any solar observing spacecraft in history. SDO will help scientists study solar activity to improve forecasts of how the suns weather affects Earth." - NASA on YouTube.

10 Comments

Don't care how many times this is posted...the sun kicks ASS!

Science always deserve a vote.

yellowc says...

Funny to think that solar flare at the start is like many many times the size of the Earth.

is there a time frame for how long that solar event took?

>> ^rgroom1:

is there a time frame for how long that solar event took?

i think that's realtime, not timelapse

>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^rgroom1:
is there a time frame for how long that solar event took?

i think that's realtime, not timelapse

No way that's real time. Just think about the scale of that eruption...

There are some videos of similar events on YouTube with timers.

This one lasts around 10 hours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSM7wtfSWXk

( More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence )

wow... just wow.

handmethekeysyou says...

This is the best WinAmp visualizer plug-in ever.

ForgedReality says...

They said, "The Earth is flat!"
Science said, "HA HA HA!!"

They said, "Okay, maybe the Earth isn't flat, but the stars are still just holes in the sky!"
Science said, "HA HA HA!!"

They said, "Okay, maybe the stars are more than mere holes, but the sun is our god in the sky!"
Science said, "HA HA HA!!"

They said, "Okay, it's really a star, j/k before. But don't stare directly at it!"
Science said, "HA HA HA!!"

They said, "Okay, as long as you're really, really careful, maybe you can stare at it, but don't go doing anything stupid like trying to recreate one in the Large Hadron Collider...!"

To be continued...

forge they are not trying to fuse hydrogen atoms together. . .

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