This was SDO’s view of a large solar prominence eruption near the Sun’s eastern limb that occurred earlier this morning. Earth is used as a scale.
Here’s a video of the eruption:
Here is an alternative video:
Credit: NASA/SDO/@ObservingSpace
Sunspot AR2158 unleashed an X1.6 class solar flare today. The pic above was created from four separate photogenic frames at different times from the video below and look at the area around sunspot AR2158. Earth is used as a scale. The pic looks at the sun in the 304, 171, 131, and 335 Angstrom wavelengths of light.
The sun unleashes an X class solar flare on Sep. 10. Earth used as a scale https://t.co/q0U9J82U8Y #sun #sdo #sunspot #xclass #solar #flare
— Observing Space (@ObservingSpace) September 10, 2014
Here’s a video of a coronal mass ejection (CME) that the sun unleashed right after the X class solar flare.
The sun unleashes a coronal mass ejection (CME) on Sep. 10, 2014 https://t.co/Lv9HhCheMF #sun #soho #lasco #sdo #cme
— Observing Space (@ObservingSpace) September 11, 2014
Here’s a composite image of the sun just before the X class solar flare reached its maximum intensity level.
Photo credits: NASA/SDO
A solar filament erupts on Aug 15, 2014 https://t.co/lbySGxajYl #sun #nasa #sdo #space #solar #filament
— Observing Space (@ObservingSpace) August 15, 2014
SDO’s view of a lunar transit in different wavelengths of light on Jul 26 https://t.co/vSr7vKAYcD #lunartransit #transit #sun #moon #nasa
— Observing Space (@ObservingSpace) July 26, 2014
Link to the 1080p HD video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAETgtGSfMo
Edit: The lunar transit is over. A video will be posted soon.
Today, between 10:57-11:42 a.m. EDT, you will be able to see a brief lunar transit via NASA’s SDO. The lunar transit is not visible anywhere on Earth except from the perspective of SDO. The moon will cover a small portion near the sun’s southwestern limb.
You can watch the lunar transit as it happens in the SDO images below.
An almost spotless sun on Jul 17 at 11:00 UTC #nasa #sdo #sun #sunspot pic.twitter.com/M4iqaQkEHD
— Observing Space (@ObservingSpace) July 17, 2014
This was the view from NASA’s SDO of the nearly spotless solar disk on Thursday, July 17, 2014. Sunspot active region 2113 was visible but it was too tiny to appear in the above image and video.