They Pointed This Telescope At The Sun. 5 Years Later? Unbelievable.

It is so amazing to see this images of the Sun!! In a way it is also so scary to see how this thing lives!!! For most people the sun is just a big ball of fire that gives us light, but watching this video, another image is created!! Just watch this and you will see!

NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) has been studying the sun since 2010, generating about 1.5 terabytes of data every day. The goal of the mission is to understand how the Sun's powerful magnetic field is generated, maintained, and how the stored magnetic energy is converted into solar winds and other high-energy particles that influence the rest of the solar system, including Earth.


The video below shows a summary of the beautiful visuals that SDO has captured in the past 5 years!

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Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun, but I have never been able to make out the numbers.

Mahhh!! Couldn't resist a dumb sun joke.

Thanks for uploading this fascinating vid.

a reply to: IndependentOpinion

Awesome video..
Thanks for sharing.

a reply to: IndependentOpinion

Its a stunning piece of film

I authored a thread about it a couple of months ago here

a reply to: Irishhaf

No problem! It so amazing to see at what scale those solar flares happen, yet the average person has no idea of what is happening above him!!!

And hoe much do we even know about this great feature up in space?

a reply to: SecretKnowledge

O shucks, Sorry, didn't see that it was posted already!!!

I was just so amazed at what I saw, I had to share it as soon as I could!

a reply to: IndependentOpinion

Hey i dont mind, you posting it again means more people will see it.

Im not one for reporting to the mods.

Looks hot.

a reply to: SecretKnowledge

Cool! Thanks!

Beautiful

Thanks for the share.

Jude11

I hand't seen it already'.

Thanks OP. What an awesome display of power.

a reply to: SecretKnowledge
Truly amazing thing. Positively godlike as it is responsible for maintaining much life here on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the vicinity. Im flagging both threads.

Fantastic. Nice vid, music was nice, but I like to watch without sound. I wonder what sound would be like as those flares unfolded. humbling to watch. makes you wonder like you used to when you were 5 yrs old staring up at the stars at night. humbling. makes one want to believe in the divine.

Reminds me of the terminator 2 scene [spoiler ahead] with the splashing around in the molten metal, only in this video, the scale is just obscenely vast compared!.

Pretty to watch and hard to imagine that its mostly just what we know as invisible gas on earth, compressed and fusing at incredible temperatures as well as the huge size, one of those smallest little arcs/wisps being far larger than our entire planet 0.o

a reply to: IndependentOpinion

It's like watching a great beast. Very cool, yet scary at the same time-especially those ejections.

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Looks hot.

It is.
Earth-Sun distance = 150 million kilometers
Sun radius = 695800 kilometers
Energy per square meter at Earth radius = 1.361 kwatt/square meter

Given that energy distribution doubles as the radius is halved and the ratio between the sun's radius and the earth/sun orbital radius is close to 218, that means the energy level doubles at least seven times is 1.361 x 218 = over 290 kilowatts/square meter!!! That's more intense than a full raging forest fire.

a reply to: IndependentOpinion

Brother, this is one Fascinating Majestically Beutiful piece of video!!!

Thanx for the Share here Man! Wow! Just WOW!!!

Wow what an Amazing video ! I recommend using full screen to watch it .


When I watch it i feel like the sun is transferring energy all around its self via solar flare . The flares arch enough to cool down in space thus causing a continual reaction . anyway just my crazy thoughts !

Nice video !!!!!!!


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3:20 the Sun Fires a shot at the spying satellite only just missess!

This Universe is trully amazing, mekes you wonder how there are so many a55 holes here on Earth.

a reply to: IndependentOpinion

Thanks for the post. Fantastic images, indeed.