April 22nd - NASA Releases Stunning Sun Photos/Video

NASA has released stunning new photographs of the sun, giving a greater scientific insight to the ball of fire that affects everything on Earth.

Images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft reveal higher detail of sunspots and solar flares, as well as extreme close-ups of the massive celestial body.

"These initial images show a dynamic sun that I had never seen in more than 40 years of solar research," NASA Heliophysics director Richard Fisher said.

"This mission will have a huge impact on science."

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/d14e4e5b1d1f.png[/atsimg]
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/49c8c47b755f.png[/atsimg]
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/8b7f3e1921a7.png[/atsimg]
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/93f7b820283f.png[/atsimg]
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/56f057d47007.png[/atsimg]

Very cool new pictures from NASA's new SDO satellite, can't wait for more to be released these are quite majestic.

Visit the Source for the larger originals, I had to re-size to make them fit properly here.

Edited to add:
Very cool video of the flare going off

Thanks Clisen33 for bringing this video to my (and ats's) attention




[edit on 4/22/2010 by Alaskan Man]

reply to post by Alaskan Man


Wow very cool pictures.

Thanks for posting them i love posts like these.

Looks like the multi-colored picture has a kind of hole or divet in the sun or something strange.

To think that that is the thing that makes our lives on this planet possible. We really do take it for granted sometimes.

Thanks for that info and those great photos. They are amazing and look forward to seeing more!

Stunning pictures. Thanks for posting these.

Got this weeks wallpaper

These are really cool photo's, but this is already posted here: www.abovetopsecret.com...

Originally posted by webpirate
These are really cool photo's, but this is already posted here: www.abovetopsecret.com...

i dont think thats quite the same, thats talking about the launch of the satellite and has a link to a video feed from the site.

these are photo's released by NASA today, taken by that satellite.