Get lost in the beauty of our star with Seán Doran‘s film “One Month of Sun”. Constructed from more than 78,000 NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory images, the video shows solar Keep reading
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Magnetic Storms
Periodically, our sun releases plasma in a coronal mass ejection. Afterwards, the local magnetic field lines shift and reorganize. We can see that process in action here because charged particles spin along Keep reading
Solar Prominence
Near the surface of the sun, the interplay of magnetic fields and plasma flow creates solar prominences that appear to dance. The prominence shown here was recorded in 2012 by Keep reading
5 Years of SDO
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is our premiere source for data on the sun. In honor of its five-year anniversary, NASA released this beautiful video compiling some of the highlights Keep reading
Rocket Sonic Boom
Originally posted: 22 July 2010 This video of the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory’s launch is such a favorite of mine that it was part of the original inspiration for FYFD and Keep reading
Dancing Plasma
Two dark areas of plasma, cooler than the surrounding fluid, dance and intertwine above the sun’s surface. Plasma, a rarefied gas made up of ions, is an electrically conductive fluid, Keep reading
Solar Tornadoes
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this video of swirls of darker, cooler plasma caught between competing magnetic forces over the course of 30 hours. The plasma strands rotate like tornadoes Keep reading
Solar Flare
An M-class solar flare with a towering prominence erupted from the Sun over the course of three hours in late September. Notice how the plasma does not fall straight back Keep reading
Glorious Coronal Mass Ejection
In early June, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a stunning coronal mass ejection, in which larger than usual quantities of cool (relatively speaking) plasma erupted from the surface of the Keep reading
Coronal Waves
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has found evidence of Kelvin-Helmholtz waves in the sun’s corona. These waves, which occur between two fluids of different densities or moving at different speeds, are Keep reading