Views of the Sun captured by Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)

Sep 4, 2018 12:56 AM

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These views of the Sun were captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/main/index.html

Views of the Sun now: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

The show the hot outer layers of the Sun in extreme ultraviolet light.
SDO images the Sun in 10 wavelengths of light every 12 seconds.
#science #sun #nasa #ultraviolet #star #space

#thesun #sun

Learn more about how we study the Sun at - https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/main/index.html
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Source for these images: https://www.instagram.com/tv/BnMacGKno9_/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=ow7d815nloy2
View of the Sun now: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Hope you enjoy :)

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Aren’t those flares like the size of our moon or some crazy shit?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Bit bigger /a/p1AXeag

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Awwww fuck yeah.

8 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

8 years ago | Likes 84 Dislikes 1

I just noticed that... cat? ... falling behind him...

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Sorry. Won't happen again.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Beautiful +1

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Now I need sunscreen

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm not a very religious person normally, but I could get behind sun worship

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Extremely terrifying and beautiful

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

These pictures truly deserve the (unfortunately overused) adjective awesome.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sun is hot fire ball

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Damn Sun

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I love this post because my phones background changed 8 times before I got to the end.

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Many Bananas for scale were sacrificed for these photos. They can't be seen due to a technical problem of being instantly vaporized.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

There was another technical problem of being infinitesimally small in comparison but Frank is working on that one.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lisa was in charge of making sure there were no mix ups with Metric and Standard Bananas. That part worked. Awesome Job Lisa!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I heard Phil ate some of the metric bananas

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If you look closely, you can see California.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Don't look! You'll go blind!

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

It did feel weird to look at them. Too bright.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The floor is lava. And so are the walls. And so is the ceiling. Everything is lava

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

the floor is plasma

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

credit to @StarsandStones

8 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 0

Yeah, the scale of these always blows my mind...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's what blows my mind the most. Those flares are bigger than our fucking planet!

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

glad we are fucking far away

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

means nothing to me, i need banana for size...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

now do a banana

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Look close. I’m holding one up.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Amazing!

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I agree. Just imagine the amount of energy in just one of those flares.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Sure glad we’re a nice comfortable distance away

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Well that answers my question. Thank you!

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Sometimes I forget that we're hurtling through space at an alarming rate, orbiting what is more or less a permanent explosion.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

*slaps roof of sun* This bad boy can fit so much frickin Hydrogen in it.

8 years ago | Likes 243 Dislikes 4

Lmao!

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

do you think there is a civilization that can live in the sun athmosphere but we wont make contact with them because, well, you know 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

they could be really fraking different than us

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

There is a race like that in a book series I'm reading called "The Saga of Seven Suns" by Kevin J Anderson.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Probably not. But it doesn't make it impossible, just improbable.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Better question is can there exist a reactionary system that is programmable and stable in that environment.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I guess one could eventually develop

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The thing that gets me is when they're like, "oh and that little splurt in the picture is 100 times the size of the Earth."

8 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

While surface gravity is roughly 27 times stronger than on earth. The amount of force is incredible.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

and we are just waiting for the big one, that will knock us back to the stone age.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

From another root comment just below yours at this time:

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Knew I should have used pictures.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Mama always told me not to look into the eye of the sun

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

But Mama, that's where the fun is!

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

*STAR TREK: VOYAGER THEME INTENSIFIES*

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I ’member … v

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And in 7 years the Parker probe will give us even better

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm sorry doc, but all I see are demons from these sun blot tests. Except one, looked like a penis.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

significant studies of solar flares is required to allow time travel by utilizing wormholes created by a device called the Stargate

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8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

That's gotta be at least 100 degrees

8 years ago | Likes 236 Dislikes 3

celsius

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Kelvin

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

About treefiddy, I reckon.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

4000 C at lest

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well... You're not wrong.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just enough to boil water.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Well, you're not wrong...

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

That badboy is exactly 360 degreees. Change my mind

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well done. 4 pi steradians it is then

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The outside or photosphere of the sun is much cooler than one would expect at around 5500°C

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

so, basically summer in Florida to put that into context.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Pfff, hah!...Breeze...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

childsplay

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This universe is a beautifully violent place to live.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Just like the USA.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well it is part of the universe.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Much like the salespeople say- location, location, location. most of it is empty and boring as fuck, hence why we call it "space"

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Really is. Just thinking about the sun boggles the mind.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0