NASA SDO: Year 5 Amazing images of the Sun
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Highlights from the Solar Dynamics Observatory's five years of watching the sun. February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly detailed images of the whole sun 24 hours a day. Capturing an image more than once per second, SDO has provided an unprecedentedly clear picture of how massive explosions on the sun grow and erupt ever since its launch on Feb. 11, 2010. The imagery is also captivating, allowing one to watch the constant ballet of solar material through the sun's atmosphere, the corona. In honor of SDO's fifth anniversary, NASA has released a video showcasing highlights from the last five years of sun watching. Watch the movie to see giant clouds of solar material hurled out into space, the dance of giant loops hovering in the corona, and huge sunspots growing and shrinking on the sun's surface. The imagery is an example of the kind of data that SDO provides to scientists. By watching the sun in different wavelengths – and therefore different temperatures – scientists can watch how material courses through the corona, which holds clues to what causes eruptions on the sun, what heats the sun's atmosphere up to 1,000 times hotter than its surface, and why the sun's magnetic fields are constantly on the move. Five years into its mission, SDO continues to send back tantalizing imagery to incite scientists' curiosity. For example, in late 2014, SDO captured imagery of the largest sun spots seen since 1995 as well as a torrent of intense solar flares. Solar flares are bursts of light, energy and X-rays. They can occur by themselves or can be accompanied by what's called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, in which a giant cloud of solar material erupts off the sun, achieves escape velocity and heads off into space. In this case, the sun produced only flares and no CMEs, which, while not unheard of, is somewhat unusual for flares of that size. Scientists are looking at that data now to see if they can determine what circumstances might have led to flares eruptions alone. Goddard built, operates and manages the SDO spacecraft for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. SDO is the first mission of NASA's Living with a Star Program. The program's goal is to develop the scientific understanding necessary to address those aspects of the sun-Earth system that directly affect our lives and society Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO For More Information http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/videos-highlight-sdos-fifth-anniversary/ Related Documentation SDO_Year_5_List.pdf Credits Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Lead Director Lead Producer Lead Editor Tom Bridgman (GST): Lead Data Visualizer Karen Fox (ASI): Lead Writer Please give credit for this item to: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO music: Darker Thoughts by Silent Partner (music from Audio Library - Find music or sound effects to enhance your videos. https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music video video post-edited by 1HarryH video © 1HarryH
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seriously...all cgi
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Just amazing! Beautiful!
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@0:18 Paused. You picture that's how the universe blew into existence. Except much, much smaller. But there was nothig outside it.
I think the big crunch will crush the universe to nothing again & explode in a big bang again. Well almost nothing & then boom another big bang.
The universe cannot lose mass because every big bang is the first big bang. Time starts over.
There was no overall beginning... nature gets around this problem because each big bang is the first big bang ever. So that there doesn't have to be a how did it all start question.
It's the only explanation. Why would this only happen once? The big crunch will reset/rewind the clock allowing this to happen an infinate number of times. There was no beginning because there was no before after a big bang. There is always only 1 big bang because time is reset. -
Sun is thus very distance lava burst movie can't seem right ! Where have they all glow visible from lava very large chasm !
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How far is the camera from the sun ?
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I finally found SDO at 12:59:30 am last night with our club telescope. It went about 5 arc minutes North of HD152327, which is in the southern portion of Hercules, to a predicted path to about 2 arc minutes, to what Skysafari app showed. Stellarium app said it would be about 13th magnitude, and it was. It was slowly drifting East, while all the stars were drifting West. Equipment: Celestron C14 on a Gemini mount, with a 21mm Ethos eyepiece, at 183 power.I finally found SDO at 12:59:30 am last night with our club telescope.
It went about 5 arc minutes North of HD152327, which is in the southern portion of Hercules, to a predicted path to about 2 arc minutes, to what Skysafari app showed. Stellarium app said it would be about 13th magnitude, and it was. It was slowly drifting East, while all the stars were drifting West.
Equipment: Celestron C14 on a Gemini mount, with a 21mm Ethos eyepiece, at 183 power. -
Lava without oxgen burn....??
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Don't get it, why its not white color or something close to white ?
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If there have fire,there must have oxgen gas, because without oxgen gas do not fire some material.
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Hold up people are piers I thought the sun was going black
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I highly doubt the Sun is as far as they say it is ...to have photo's this close up of the Sun would have to be very close to arth like just right above the moon..and one more very important bit of info..they say a blast of solar rays from the sun if comes close to Earth would frie all our electronics right ?? so maybe they should make our electronics out of the same Material that has come this close to the sun and not be damaged lol..people need to question what they teach us...
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Did you know that what religious pple mean by "Hell" There's no hell, the SUN is the hell everyone talk about.
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This is awesome to watch while smoking strong pot
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who else noticed dark 5's vid intro on here
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The beautiful things we take for granted in life.
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Bonjour Harry
Excellent partage que nous aimons beaucoup
Bravo et merci
Amitiés
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OH WOW! This is so awesome! Thanks!
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Wow! Oh this was breathtaking. They did an amazing job, so many colors! Thanks so much for sharing!
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Sehr interessantes Video, gekleidet mit schöner Musik !!!
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