NASA | New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images

NASA | New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images

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Added on Wednesday 21 April 2010 14:49:03
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This compilation of video shows some of the first imagery and data sent back from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Most of the imagery comes from SDO's AIA instrument, and different colors are used to represent different temperatures, a common technique for observing solar features. SDO sees the entire disk of the Sun in extremely high spacial and temporal resolution and this allows scientists to zoom in on notable events like flares, waves, and sunspots. Enjoy the imagery and post in the comments the parts you found most captivating.

To learn more about the SDO mission, visit: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/briefing-materials-20100421.html
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/SDOFirstLight.html

Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's magnetic field and also provide a better understanding of the role the sun plays in Earth's atmospheric chemistry and climate. Since launch, engineers have been conducting testing and verification of the spacecrafts components. Now fully operational, SDO will provide images with clarity 10 times better than high-definition television and will return more comprehensive science data faster than any other solar observing spacecraft.

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harpstrings1060

I'm legally blind so I really hardly see anything and even less at night.
Thursday 02 February 2012 22:40:03
10mintwo

@sweet6b9 Why must it be "massive in size"? You don't know where the "dot" is located in space. Because of the lack of perspective you cannot know anything about it's size. In fact, if you look into it at all you'll see that it's a speck of dust on the camera and its NOT moving. It's the sun's rotation that makes it appear to move, duh. Not that you'll believe anything less than it being an interstellar alien spaceship though, judging from the wacko conspiracy videos you favorite.
Tuesday 24 January 2012 16:58:53
MrKaplanos

sun is a stargate
Friday 16 December 2011 14:10:49
larey11D2

any of u know if this is real or computer made? well the first part... 0-43?
Friday 07 October 2011 20:25:22
Sivor

@alminaedzevit God... lulz
Tuesday 28 June 2011 22:03:13
loverockr

@jqs1943 ME ATE WAFFLE :D
Sunday 26 June 2011 03:12:28
sallyjedi

Beautufil and stunning! Please what means the letters and numbers at the bottom of the video?
Thursday 14 April 2011 12:20:27
sweet6b9

Hello, at Time Marker 2:25 through 2:33 you can clearly see a small black dot, but must be massive in size, moving across the surface of the sun slowly from right to left it is just below center of screen a little to the left, You cannot Miss it in the yellow background. Wait, and yet another one in the segment just before it just to the left of center screen and up a little, again moving slowly from right to left... Again at 3:02, lower left from center..
Tuesday 12 April 2011 22:51:05
Angles786

LOOKS MORE LIKE OCEAN OF HOT LIQUID MADE BY GASES THOUGH
Tuesday 12 April 2011 10:07:16
jqs1943

The osmotic metamorphosis of the worlds from the moment of their inception. The atom forms at a rate of about 3 billionths of one inch per second. Gigantic spherical magnets form in time. The magnets are inundated by continuopusly oscillating ions. The core develops a magnetite skin. Ions continue to develop within the core. Skin cracks and releases ions that transform into isotopes and structure high feeder pillars that serve to support the substratum. The substratum becomes chemical elements.
Sunday 03 April 2011 19:17:08
jimmyboyG485

@thusharamful Uhh, how can I put this... you are wrong. The Sun, like all stars, is hottest and densest in the centre. Really, you're nearly as bad as the AIDS deniers - not causing the harm, but every bit as stupid.
Friday 25 March 2011 16:48:28
VanostranIV

@FRAANT07 Try some old Pink Floyd.
Wednesday 09 March 2011 01:10:03
FRAANT07

NASA needs to learn how to crank some tunes
Wednesday 02 March 2011 14:24:15
ReyColons619

@Ivin3690 so?
Tuesday 01 March 2011 16:43:42
sandustanBrasov

SandustanBrasov The test for nuclear fusion realisation on Tokamak's installations and with LASER cannot bring anything new for the energetics' future. I bind the thermonuclear controlled reactor schedule by the Sun model , by the reactive electromagnetic motor schedule from Palenque stone's tombe. You see the my project for thermonuclear controlled reactor.
Sunday 13 February 2011 10:06:50
sandustanBrasov

SandustanBrasov The test for nuclear fusion realisation on Tokamak's installations and with LASER cannot bring anything new for the energetics' future. I bind the thermonuclear controlled reactor schedule by the Sun model , by the reactive electromagnetic motor schedule from Palenque stone's tombe. You see the my project for thermonuclear controlled reactor.
Sunday 13 February 2011 10:05:59
rocafella142

@pianoma231 don't listen to that guy he has no idea what he's talking about.
Tuesday 08 February 2011 02:42:36
rocafella142

@thusharamful The outer layer of the sun is the photosphere and that is only 11,000 degrees. That makes no fuckin sense. The core of the sun is extremely hot it is 30 million degrees, that is why thermonuclear fusion can take place with the Hydrogen gas in the core of the sun. If the sun was cool in the core then the gas would move slow wouldn't be albe to produce light, no random walk, and we would all be dead. Your "theory" completely blows away all common sense of stars.
Tuesday 08 February 2011 02:37:18
thusharamful

@pianoma231 Not really.The outer layer of the sun is extremely hotter than the inner layers.Thats complicating everything about the sun and confusing scientists for decades.There is a new satelite probe we are sending soon will eventually will give some more details about the strange behaviour.Usually heat will increase when you go deep into the fire but the sun acts opposite.
Wednesday 19 January 2011 22:44:09
pianoma231

It seems like a very simple system when compared to something like the human heart.
Wednesday 22 December 2010 12:32:40
helxig

I understand how amazing this is, but my brain just can't comprehend it to the full extent! The first part looked so cool but holy crap, that would be so much matter being exploded off the surface and sucked back in by it's intense gravity. Wicked. And to think that enormous, ferocious being gives us all life so far away.
Friday 17 December 2010 22:35:23
Ivin3690

the sun is not pretty..
Friday 17 December 2010 03:20:07