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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Flames of the Sun

A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 pm EDT, just...

Three Years of SDO Data – Narrated

If you enjoyed the recent video from Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) - “Three years in three minutes” – but would have liked more of an explanation of what was going on with our own local star… here it is again!  This time, though, extended, and narrated by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center heliophysicist Alex Young. [...]

These awesome images of the Earth’s Sun were recently...

These awesome images of the Earth’s Sun were recently captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. They reveal the occurrence of a beautiful solar prominence - an incredibly large and bright loop of red hot plasma created as a solar flare erupted. A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. Show More Summary

Watch a Solar Wave Burst Out of the Sun

NASA has released a seriously cool video of a massive solar wave—what the cool kids call a "coronal mass ejection"—that its Solar Dynamics Observatory captured over a 2.5-hour stretch yesterday. While these kinds of sun storms have been known to mess with satellites or even power grids...

NASA Satellite Captures Spectacular Eruption on Sun

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite has captured video images of a massive explosion that erupted Wednesday from the edge of the sun.

NASA squeezes three years of solar activity into a three minute time-lapse video

3 weeks agoTechnology / Gadgets : Gizmag

Three years ago the very first images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) were beamed back to earth. Since then, NASA’s SDO has effectively had continuous coverage of the Sun’s rise towards solar maximum, the period of the most intense solar activity in the 11 year solar cycle. Show More Summary

NASA Sun Video: Three Years Condensed Into Three-Minute Time Lapse!

For the last three years, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been tracking our sun - the one and only - as it approaches "solar maximum." That's the scientific term for the star's peak in solar activity each 11 years, and in...Show More Summary

NASA video shows 3 years of the Sun’s activity in 3 minutes

3 weeks agoOdd : The Sideshow

NASA’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) has been taking a picture of the Sun every 12 seconds for the past three years from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). And now, they have released a time-lapse video showing all of those pictures compiled into one 3-minute clip. “In the three years since it first provided images of [...]

NASA Time-Lapse of 3 Years of the Sun in 3 Minutes

3 weeks agoOdd : Laughing Squid

This NASA time-lapse shows the sun’s activity for the past three years in three minutes. The images are from the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft, which has been collecting data on the sun in order to better understand the sun’s influence on the earth. The spacecraft’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures an image of the sun [...]

Marvel at NASA's mesmerizing 3-years-of-sun-shots video

3 weeks agoTechnology / Gadgets : Crave

The sun's surface is an active place. (Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET) We've always been told not to stare at the sun, but NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been doing just that for the last three years. Since...Show More Summary

Incendiary NASA Video Shows 3 Years of Sun Explosions in 3 Minutes

For the past three years, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has tracked our sun as it approaches something called "solar maximum," which is the scientific term for the star's peak in solar activity each 11 years. The three-minute...Show More Summary

Three years of the Sun in three minutes

Spectacular three year time lapse video from the Solar Dynamics Observatory In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the … Continue reading ?

See Three Years Of Solar Dynamics Compressed Into Three Minutes [VIDEO]

Today, NASA released onto the WWW what is sure to be one of its most popular videos of all time…Three years worth of time-lapsed video of our sun capture by the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO)… How it was made and what to look for… Every...Show More Summary

Three Years in the Life of Our Sun: VIDEO

3 weeks agoLGBT / Gay : Towleroad

A stunning three-year time-lapse of the celestial body that gives us life: In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of...

Watch three years in the life of our sun

3 weeks agoGenres / Sci Fi : io9

For the past three years, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has had an uninterrupted view of the sun. This exquisitely detailed video now shows those three years at a pace of two images per day, chronicling the sun's rise toward solar maximum. Read more...

Three Years Of Sun In Three Minutes

4 weeks agoLGBT / Gay : Joe. My. God.

NASA explains: In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun's rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. Show More Summary

Watch Our Sun Exploding for Three Years in Just Three Minutes

4 weeks agoTechnology / Gadgets : Gizmodo

Since the spring of 2010, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been has been shooting continuous photos of the sun, once every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The results are gorgeous. More »

Solar Dynamics Observatory: Three years in three minutes

4 weeks agoNews : Slugger O'Toole

What it says on the tin.  Three years after First Light, Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has released three stunning minutes of images compiled during its virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum.  Enjoy!  [Video from NasaExplorer on YouTube. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO] As they note in the associated text During [...]

The Sun Just Shot Off the Biggest, Most Spectacular Solar Flare of the Year

last monthTechnology / Gadgets : Gizmodo

Early this morning, while most of us were resting peacefully in our beds, everyone's favorite flaming ball of plasma decided to give NASA's cameras a little show. More specifically, the Solar Dynamics Observatory managed to capture our sun's biggest solar flare of the year thus far. More »

Wired Space Photo of the Day: The Quiet Sun

This image taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument at 171 Angstrom shows the current conditions of the quiet corona and upper transition region of the Sun.

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