Green Earth Facts » Space http://greenearthfacts.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 18 May 2010 23:45:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 NASA reveals new stunning images of the Sun http://greenearthfacts.com/space/nasa-reveals-new-stunning-images-of-the-sun/ http://greenearthfacts.com/space/nasa-reveals-new-stunning-images-of-the-sun/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:24:46 +0000 Green Earth Facts http://greenearthfacts.com/?p=267
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    SDO's Ultraviolet Sun, NASA

    More than three months after being hurled into orbit, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is snapping some breathtaking images of the Sun, the first of which NASA released this afternoon. The mission designers have to be happy with them: the pics capture huge looping prominences lashing out from the surface and the kinds of massive explosions one might expect from a giant, churning ball of cosmic gas.

    A prominence eruption, NASA

    A prominence eruption, NASA

    Video of a prominence eruption

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmm3J0WAres

    Multi-temperature imagery of an eruption

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xaJnDTcJZc

    More images and video on NASA SDO
    SDO on YouTube

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