BREATHTAKING VIEWS OF THE SUN! 'SDO: Year 5' - NASA Video

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BREATHTAKING VIEWS OF THE SUN! "SDO: Year 5" - NASA Space Video

- FROM NASA: 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

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I love when the music syncs with the explosions of the flares.

octo
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God is the best scientist one can ever imagine

nrabaluchinenyececilia
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I can't help to cry not because the video is sad, because it's so beautiful . Thank you NASA for everything you do. ❤️

tracey
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Real images my ass. Nothing but an animated Cartoon we are watching

carlton
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Miraculously beautiful, thank you NASA.

monettemackbright
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Seeing Mercury at 1:03 flying by is so crazy....god that place is hot lol

ZmannR
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The best addition to our homeschool unit study on the sun!!! Phenomenal!

julirobinson
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This is the most amazing video. Our Sun. I feel so much right now!

paulmerc
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Amazing video of the sun. I was never a fan of space, planets, and stars until recently after ending up on disability

debrakleid
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So beautiful and amazing. I am in tears watching this. Thank you for uploading

sariputri
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My AllAh (God made this All Universe) ♡♡♡♡♡

alirajput
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The best video of Sun .. Thanks to NASA....

leopardtiger
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This looks awsome good job on making this video

carlosordonez
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The beauty of such things really puts things in perspective..there;s such nonsense on earth...I wish we could adore this universe so much more and more of us....

MelliaBoomBot
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Some things were never meant to be seen up close, now we know how vulnerable and temporary the sun actually is.

fritzvolz
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Mankind to universe: We have got nuclear weapons of mass destruction..
Sun in Reply: Hold my UV Rays!!!

shivaaakumar
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What’s that yellow and purple thing after the Mercury footage?

dokidoki
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I can't believe this I mean


. ...Just

saba
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WOW.. In trying to fathom the size, a million earths can fit in the sun. The magnitude of it all one has to think no way in hell was all of this random. The perfection of such mass's in perfect harmony, only GOD can set this up.

johnknowing-zrde
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Explosions from things crashing into the sun or from volcanic activity?

PartyProphet