Solar Dynamics Observatory Archives

4K time-lapse from NASA shows the sun’s explosive corona in action

February 13, 2016 by GB Leave a Comment

Six years ago, NASA launched its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a mission and accompanying module designed to monitor the sun in an attempt to better understand its electromagnetic behavior and the various phenomena it impacts.

A major component of this was to capture consistent images using extreme ultraviolet imaging, a technic used due to its ability to capture the sun’s corona, an aura of plasma that encompasses the sun millions of miles into space.

Today, NASA has shared its latest video, showing the SDO’s view of the sun’s corona in action from from January 1st, 2015 to January 28th, 2016.[Read More…]

NASA’s Thermonuclear Art Shows The Sun in 10 Wavelengths, 4K and 30 Minutes

November 10, 2015 by Liron Samuels Leave a Comment

‘Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD’ is the latest timelapse video released by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and it lives up to its name.

Capturing the sun in 10 wavelengths of invisible ultraviolet light every 12 seconds, and assigning a unique color to each wavelength, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory brings us the images required to create this mesmerizing eye candy.

According to NASA each minute of footage required about ten hours of work, so this 30-minute long video took approximately 300 hours to edit.

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Watch This Time Lapse Montage of the Sun’s Atmosphere Captured over Four Years

April 10, 2015 by Liron Samuels Leave a Comment

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft has been observing the sun since 2010 with the goal of understanding its influence on the Earth and near-Earth space.

Using time lapse footage captured by the SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) between 2011 and 2015, Michael König edited this cool video.

This joins a previous video he created using time lapse sequences taken by the crew of the International Space Station which reached over 10 million views and was a 2012 Lyrical Vimeo Awards Finalist.

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NASA Captures Massive Solar Flare; May Amplify Northern Lights

March 13, 2015 by Liron Samuels Leave a Comment

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured photos and video of the first super-powerful solar flare of 2015.

The X-class solar flare was directed at Earth, and while the Earth’s atmosphere protects us from the harmful radiation, it caused a strong radio blackout. More importantly for us photographers, though, such massive radiation bursts may lead to spectacular displays of the Northern Lights.

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