Seeing A Star In A New Light

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched in February, has started to send back data. The instruments are giving solar scientists an unprecedented look at the sun, says Dean Pesnell, SDO project scientist. The hope is to better understand how solar activity--solar flares, coronal mass ejections, coronal holes--is linked to the sun's magnetic field.

credit: video, images courtesy of: SDO (NASA) and the AIA, EVE and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, music by SYNTHAR

source: http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10311

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[trevion0]

can you please tell me the exact song that was used in the video it sounds kewl

[djxatlanta]

@trevion0 - If you read the credits (ahem!), it lists the music credit -- SYNTHAR. They're on MySpace. ;-)

[DeanFirefly]

Fantastic! I regularly do volunteer classifications at solar stormwatch. This is right up our street.

[djxatlanta]

@DeanFirefly - This has been an exciting year for solar astronomy! Although I'm more interested in planetary astronomy, the extended solar minimum followed by the burst of activity within the past year accompanied by the launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory has made me very interested in the sun -- although I don't participate, I promoted Solar Stormwatch on my Facebook page earlier in the year... that must be fun to volunteer for them! - Michael

[m47orion]

wery nice:-)