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Solar Dynamics Observatory

New Video Shows Fire and ‘Rain’ on the Sun

February 20, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter This footage was obtained by the AIA instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 19, 2012. It provides a stunning display of solar activity and shows how wildly different events on the Sun can be. Some come just with a [...]

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4 Cool Views of the Hot, Loopy, Spotty Sun

January 8, 2013

A few sunspots are now ‘peppering” the surface of our Sun — Spaceweather.com lists about 12 different sunspot groups today. Yesterday (January 7, 2013), astrophotographer John Chumack stepped outside over his lunch break and captured some cool-looking views of the Sun from his observatory in Ohio, using different filters. See more below, plus the Solar [...]

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Spectacular Filament Eruption on the Sun Captured by SDO

September 1, 2012

Yikes! Not to be outdone by the Blue Moon, the Sun had some impressive action on August 31, 2012 as well. A solar filament collapsed and and exploded, and the Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the action in dramatic detail. The view in extreme ultraviolet light is simply jaw-dropping! The segment in the 304 angstroms wavelength [...]

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How a Rubber Chicken is Spreading the Word about NASA, Space Missions and Science

May 6, 2011

Here’s a headline you don’t see too often: “Rubber Chicken Turned NASA Mission Mascot Embarks on a Flight to Space.” Seriously, this is a true story. If you’ve not heard of Camilla Corona, or Camilla SDO as she is sometimes called, you probably haven’t been paying attention to one of the most exciting current space [...]

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SDO’s Crazy-Looking Sun Due to Syzygy

April 1, 2011

It looks like something is eating the Sun in recent pictures from the Solar Dynamics Observatory — and in recent SDO videos, the Sun suddenly disappears! What is going on? Could it be aliens, Planet X, or the Great Galactic Ghoul? Nope, just orbital mechanics and syzygy (an alignment of three celestial objects). At this [...]

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