133 Days on the Sun in 4k

NASA has released this video of what the Solar Dynamics Observatory saw observing the Sun for 133 days , the inset views to the right really are quite stunning.

This video chronicles solar activity from Aug. 12 to Dec. 22, 2022, as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has steadily imaged the Sun in 4K x 4K resolution for nearly 13 years. This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system.

a reply to: gortex

That's some good footage, but it's long... Where is the ufo?

a reply to: Terpene

They say the blackouts in the video are caused by the Earth and Moon , they say.

a reply to: gortex

There's aliens in there.

Thanks for sharing, amazing clip and well woth full screen on Youtube. Music is cool too.

I'm going to spend an hour looking for UFOs now...lol

a reply to: nerbot

I'm going to spend an hour looking for UFOs now...lol

same here

a reply to: gortex

I respect your opinions and wonder how you feel about the possibility of the mag field of Earth getting weak enough for solar flares to "hit the deck".
The Suspicious Observer has a few papers out their of his own on this "doom porn".

This ball of Hydrogen making Helium sure is interesting to me.

a reply to: Justoneman

Eventually it will happen but as far as I'm aware our magnetic field is OK for the foreseeable future , if the Sun released a really strong X-class flare pointed at us it could cause us problems more so now than in the past I think as we live in a world reliant on electronics but I think that's dependent on the magnetic polarity of the flare.

Pretty cool...

They also have a movie "SDO AIA 171 Angstrom" that condenses a decade of the Sun's activity (June 2, 2010, to June 1, 2020) into an almost 49-minute time-lapse, with every second corresponding to 30 hours of SDO data.

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov...

Naturally this movie includes a number of events that have been explored previously:

* October 7, 2010: Lunar Transit
* February 24, 2011: Trebuchet eruption
* June 7, 2011: Massive eruption
* December 15, 2011: Comet Lovejoy
* June 6, 2012: Venus Transit 2012 (raw content)
* July 19, 2012: Raining Loops
* August 31, 2012: Magnificent CME
* September 29, 2013: Canyon of Fire
* October 23-28, 2013: Five days of flares and CMEs
* April 2, 2014: Graceful eruption
* July 8, 2014: Firework flare
* October 2, 2014: Mid-level flare and eruption
* October 8, 2014: Pumpkin Sun
* October 19-27 2014: Giant sunspot flares
* December 19, 2014: Holiday Lights
* April 21, 2015: Phoenix Prominence Eruption
* June 18, 2015: Arching Eruption
* May 9, 2016: Mercury transit 2016 (raw content))
* July 5, 2017: Life of Sunspot
* September 6, 2017: September flares (biggest)
* November 11, 2019: Mercury Transit 2019 (raw content)