Don't know if you saw this on QRZ home page recently.
Video of the sun the last five years taken by SDO-Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Little over 20 minutes long- incredible shots of flares, cme's and sunspots.
Enjoy.
Video of the sun the last five years taken by SDO-Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Little over 20 minutes long- incredible shots of flares, cme's and sunspots.
Enjoy.
Highlights of the Sun, by SDO Over Last 5 Years
The Sun is the source of what, in part, is needed for ionospheric
HF propagation. For the last five years, we have had an amazing
front-row seat to the Sun's activity, minute by minute: the SDO
spacecraft. And, we expect many more years of super high definition
viewing. Here is a video with highlights of the last five years of solar activity as seen by the SDO spacecraft. This is worth seeing on a larger monitor, so try to view it full screen on something larger than your palm. The music is pretty good too. It is worth the 20-some minutes of stunning viewing. Be sure to share!
Enjoy! Link to video: http://g.nw7us.us/5yrsofSunBySDO
Details:
This video features stunning clips of the Sun, captured by SDO from each of the five years since SDO’s deployment in 2010. In this movie, watch 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.
April 21, 2015 marks the five-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference, where NASA revealed the first images taken by the spacecraft. Since then, SDO has captured amazingly stunning super-high-definition images in multiple wavelengths, revealing new science, and captivating views.
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. February 11, 2010, was the day on which NASA launched an unprecedented solar observatory into space. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) flew up on an Atlas V rocket, carrying instruments that scientists hoped would revolutionize observations of the Sun.
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. The imagery is also captivating, allowing one to watch the constant ballet of solar material through the sun's atmosphere, the corona.
The imagery in this “highlight reel” provide us with examples of the kind of data that SDO provides to scientists. By watching the sun in different wavelengths (and therefore different temperatures, each “seen” at a particular wavelength that is invisible to the unaided eye) scientists can watch how material courses through the corona. 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 or coronal loops, and help reveal 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.
Coronal loops are streams of solar material traveling up and down looping magnetic field lines). 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.
This movie shows examples of x-ray flares, coronal mass ejections, prominence eruptions when masses of solar material leap off the Sun, much like CMEs. The movie also shows sunspot groups on the solar surface. One of these sunspot groups, a magnetically strong and complex region appearing in mid-January 2014, was one of the largest in nine years as well as a torrent of intense solar flares. 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.
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 as well as on Earth (disrupting shortwave communication, stressing power grids, and more). Additionally, studying our closest star is one way of learning about other stars in the galaxy.
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.
Credits:
-- Tomas, NW7US ( http://NW7US.us / https://Twitter.com/NW7US )
-- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spacewx.hfradio
-- Web: http://SunSpotWatch.com ( Data feed Twitter: https://twitter.com/hfradiospacewx )
-- YouTube: https://youtube.com/NW7US
Music Via YouTube "Free-for-use" Creation Tools
Video clips of the Sun are from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO which are in the Public Domain.
73, Tomas, NW7US
Contributing editor, Propagation: CQ & Spectrum Monitor
(thanks, John [WT7G]!)
Posted at 4/16/2015 10:34:00 AM
Posted at 4/16/2015 10:34:00 AM