Johns Hopkins University (JHU) continues to pad its space community résumé with their interactive map, “The map of the observable Universe”, that takes viewers on a 13.7-billion-year-old tour of the cosmos from the present to the moments after the Big Bang. While JHU is responsible for creating the site, additional contributions were made by NASA, the European Space Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation.
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Third episode of a three-part series. We began with the classic Volt-Ampere characteristic plot of a typical laboratory plasma discharge, then discussed how current density in the actual solar plasma varies with radial distance out from the Sun. Starting just below the visible surface of the Sun's photosphere traveling outward as far as Earth's orbit, we now complete our virtual journey to the heliopause at the edge of the solar system. Author and electrical engineer Donald E. Scott, PhD, ponders why gas-light era astrophysics are drowning in "inexplicable" phenomena. A thorough understanding that the atmosphere of our Sun is a classic electric plasma discharge is a foundation of the EU Model of Cosmology as new evidence continues to verify. -- PART 1 OF 3 Donald E. Scott: Examining Electric Plasma Discharge | Thunderbolts PART 2 OF 3 Donald E. Scott: The Solar Atmosphere vs Laboratory Plasma | Thunderbolts PART 3 OF 3 Donald E. Scott: Indeed, Our Sun is Electric! | Thunderbolts -- "The Interconnected Cosmos" — the latest book by Donald E. Scott Available now at StickmanOnStone.com -- If you see a CC with this video, it means that subtitles are available. To find out which ones, click on the Gear Icon in the lower right area of the video box and click on “subtitles” in the drop-down box. Then click on the subtitle that you would like. The Thunderbolts Project — a Voice for the Electric Universe Become a Producer through the PATREON Rewards program... Subscribe to Thunderbolts eNewsletter Guides to the Electric Universe Electric Universe Books & Merch Electric Universe by Wal Thornhill Facebook Twitter @tboltsproject Ideas and/or concepts presented in this program do not necessarily express or represent the Electric Universe model or the views of The Thunderbolts Project or T-Bolts Group Inc. The Thunderbolts Project™ Trademark of T-Bolts Group Inc. a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Copyright © 2022 T-Bolts Group Inc. All rights reserved.
Sun Blasts an X-Class Flare at the Earth You know the drill, the Sun has blasted a major flare at us (two in fact).
That means it's time to head out, watch the skies, and hope to see a beautiful aurora display.
Our Sun is the source of life on Earth. Its calm glow across billions of years has allowed life to evolve and flourish on our world. This does not mean our Sun doesn’t have an active side. We have observed massive solar flares, such as the 1859 Carrington event, which produced northern lights as far south as the Caribbean, and drove electrical currents in telegraph lines. If such a flare occurred in Earth’s direction today, it would devastate our electrical infrastructure. But fortunately for us, the Sun is mostly calm. Unusually calm when compared to other stars.
An ice core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Credit: Heidi Roop, NSF Longer studies have looked at isotopes of carbon and other elements in ice cores and tree rings. When the Sun is particularly active, high-energy protons can strike atoms in the upper atmosphere, converting them into radioactive isotopes. They can then become trapped in ice and wood. This gives us an idea of solar activity across nearly ten millennia.
Brightness variations of the Sun compared to the star KIC 7849521. Credit: MPS
The interior structure of the Sun. Credit: Wikipedia Commons/kelvinsong
Peering into the solar interior.
The sun emitting the solar flare, seen in 304 angstrom light.
The flare was directed toward Earth, Space.com reported, and that meant it caused a bit of trouble for earthlings.
According to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, radiation released by the flare caused a radio blackout.
Solar flares occur when magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly released.
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:28 p.m. EST on Dec. 19, 2014.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event.
Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere
to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere
in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. This flare is classified as an X1.8-class flare.
X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength.
An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, etc.
Published on May 1, 2015 Over a six-hour period on April 21, 2015, NASA's Solar Dyanmics Observatory (SDO) observed a wing-like prominence eruption. SDO views the sun in various wavelengths of the extreme ultravoilet, including 171 (shown in gold) and 304 (shown in orange) angstroms. : "This video is public domain and can be downloaded Or find NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Facebook: Or find us on Twitter: Category Science & Technology
A giant, swirling plume of superheated plasma churned above the surface of the sun for 40 hours last week
while a NASA spacecraft looked on.
NASA's sun-studying Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured dramatic time-lapse video of the solar tornado,
which raged from Sept. 1 through Sept. 3.(2015)
Artist’s concept of the DSCOVR satellite, which will provide real-time solar wind monitoring to the National Weather Service. Credit: NOAA
Solar wind – that is, the stream of charged electrons and protons that are released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun –
is a constant in our Solar System and generally not a concern for us Earthlings. However, on occasion a solar wind shock wave or
Coronal Mass Ejection can occur, disrupting satellites, electronics systems, and even sending harmful radiation to the surface.
The view of today’s eclipse (03-20-2015)from low Earth orbit. Credit: ESA/Proba-2.
There’s an old Robert Heinlein saying that goes “climate is what you expect, weather is what you get,”
And the weather certainly kept folks guessing right up until the start of today’s eclipse. And though much of the
UK and tracks along the Faroe Islands were clouded out, folks who made the trek up to Svalbard were treated to a fine view of totality,
while observers across Europe caught stages of the eclipse through its partial phases.
Many more managed to capture glimpses of the eclipse thanks to our good friends over at Slooh and the Virtual Telescope project.
What’s better than a full 180-degree digital theater experience that takes you into the heart of our Sun
to see how solar storms form? Why, all of that accompanied by a rumbling narration by Benedict Cumberbatch, of course.
Flaring, active regions of our sun are highlighted in this new image combining observations from several telescopes.
High-energy X-rays from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) are shown in blue; low-energy X-rays from Japan's Hinode
spacecraft are green; and extreme ultraviolet light from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is yellow and red. All three telescopes captured their solar images around the same time on April 29, 2015. The NuSTAR image is a mosaic
made from combining smaller images. The active regions across the sun’s surface contain material heated to several millions of degrees.
The blue-white areas showing the NuSTAR data pinpoint the most energetic spots. During the observations, microflares went off,
which are smaller versions of the larger flares that also erupt from the sun's surface. The microflares rapidly release energy and heat
the material in the active regions.
NuSTAR typically stares deeper into the cosmos to observe X-rays from supernovas, black holes and other extreme objects.
But it can also look safely at the sun and capture images of its high-energy X-rays with more sensitivity than before.
Scientists plan to continue to study the sun with NuSTAR to learn more about microflares, as well as hypothesized nanoflares,
which are even smaller.
In this image, the NuSTAR data shows X-rays with energies between 2 and 6 kiloelectron volts; the Hinode data, which is from the X-ray Telescope
instrument, has energies of 0.2 to 2.4 kiloelectron volts; and the Solar Dynamics Observatory data, taken using the Atmospheric
Imaging Assembly instrument, shows extreme ultraviolet light with wavelengths of 171 and 193 Angstroms.
Note the green Hinode image frame edge does not extend as far as the SDO ultraviolet image, resulting in the green portion
of the image being truncated on the right and left sides.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/JAXA Last Updated: July 30, 2015 Editor: Tony Greicius
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory acquired 200 million+ images in its past 1,826 days looking at the Sun. Goddard Space Flight Center pulled together these highlights for pure visual enjoyment in addition to cool science. Full Story:
Phil takes us for a closer (eye safe!) look at the two-octillion ton star that rules our solar system. We look at the sun's core, plasma, magnetic fields, sunspots, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and what all of that means for our planet. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace:
What mysteries about our star is NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission uncovering as it journeys closer to the Sun than any human-made object ever before? Watch this episode of #NASAScience? Live as experts discuss some of the first discoveries made by the spacecraft. License Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Get MagellanTV here: and get an exclusive offer for our viewers: an extended, month-long trial, FREE. MagellanTV has the largest and best collection of Science content anywhere, including Space, Physics, Technology, Nature, Mind and Body, and a growing collection of 4K. This new streaming service has 3,000+ great documentaries. Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: The closest images of the Sun ever were taken by ESA's Solar Orbiter. It reveals new features on the Sun never seen before, including what appear to be small flares dubbed "campfires". It's possible these campfires on the Sun may be the long-sought after "micro flares" or "nanoflares" that are theorized to heat the Sun's corona to millions of degress. ?? Subscribe for more: ?? Share this video with a fellow space traveler: ?? Watch my most recent upload: ?? Help me improve the channel by joining the community on Patreon ?? Check out Launch Pad merchandise! Disclaimer: Some of these links go to one of my websites and some are affiliate links where I'll earn a small commission if you make a purchase at no additional cost to you. ? Let's connect: For business inquiries - chris AT christianready DOT com Twitter - @launchpadastro Instagram - @launchpadastro - Facebook Discord - ?? c/o Christian Ready P.O. Box 66 Westminster, MD 21158 United States Earth
Solar cycle #23 as seen via SOHO, and an artist’s conception of the observatory in space.
All images credit of NASA/ESA/SOHO
Published on Dec 1, 2015 Dr. Joe Gurman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center provides commentary on selected shots from SOHO's 20 years in space.
After 20 years in space, ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, is still going strong. Originally launched in 1995
to study the sun and its influence out to the very edges of the solar system, SOHO revolutionized this field of science, known as heliophysics,
providing the basis for nearly 5,000 scientific papers. SOHO also found an unexpected role as the greatest comet hunter of all
time—reaching 3,000 comet discoveries in September 2015.
When SOHO was launched on Dec. 2, 1995, the field of heliophysics looked very different than it does today.
Questions about the interior of the sun, the origin of the constant outflow of material from the sun known as the solar wind,
and the mysterious heating of the solar atmosphere were still unanswered. Twenty years later, not only do we have a much better
idea about what powers the sun, but our entire understanding of how the sun behaves has changed.
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Uploaded on Dec 2, 2011 Happy 16th SOHO! Launched December 2, 1995, SOHO has been giving us a 24/7 eye on the Sun for about 1 1/2 solar activity cycles.
It has allowed us to see the Sun as it has never been seen before. Though some of the instruments have now been replaced by SDO many
of its 12 instruments are still in operation, especially the LASCO C2 and C3 coronagraphs which are still vital in our daily monitoring of the Sun. Credit: NASA / ESA SOHO Category Science & Technology License Standard YouTube License
Published on May 14, 2013 This is a collection of images taken by the instruments on-board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory' (SOHO)
of solar flare associated with the Halloween Storm of 2003. It starts with is a zoomed in view of the flare then shifts
to a full solar disk view. This is followed by the LASCO C2 coronograph view and then the LASCO C3 coronograph view.
The coronographic view end when the CCD sensors are overwhelm by the ejected solar particles.
This is the largest solar flare of the space age to date.
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A massive sunspot witnessed by SOHO in 2000, compared to the Earth.
A ‘neat’ image… Comet NEAT photobombs the view of SOHO’s LASCO C3 camera.
Published on Feb 12, 2016 The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010,
SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material
coursing through the sun's atmosphere, the corona. SDO's sixth year in orbit was no exception.
This video shows that entire sixth year -- from Jan. 1, 2015, to Jan. 28, 2016, as one time-lapse sequence.
At full quality on YouTube, this video is ultra-high definition 3840x2160 and 29.97 frames per second. Each frame represents 2 hours.
A downloadable version has a frame rate of 59.94 with each frame representing 1 hour. See below for the link.
SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths.
The images shown here are based on a wavelength of 171 angstroms, which is in the extreme ultraviolet range and
shows solar material at around 600,000 kelvins (about 1,079,540 degrees F). In this wavelength it is easy to see the sun's 25-day rotation.
During the course of the video, the sun subtly increases and decreases in apparent size. This is because the distance between the
SDO spacecraft and the sun varies over time. The image is, however, remarkably consistent and stable despite the fact that SDO
orbits Earth at 6,876 mph, and Earth orbits the sun at 67,062 mph.
Scientists study these images to better understand the complex electromagnetic system causing the constant movement on the sun,
which can ultimately have an effect closer to Earth, too: Flares and another type of solar explosion called coronal mass ejections
can sometimes disrupt technology in space. Moreover, studying our closest star is one way of learning about other stars in the galaxy.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, built, operates and manages the SDO spacecraft for NASA's Science
Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Wiessinger Music: "Tides," a track available from Killer Tracks Learn more about SDO and see more imagery: http://www.nasa.gov/sdo and http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ This video is public domain. It can be downloaded at its full quality and frame rate at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/det... Category Science & Technology License Standard YouTube License
During a December 2013 solar flare, three NASA missions observed a current sheet form – a strong clue for explaining what initiates the flares.
This animation shows four views of the flare from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA’s Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory,
and JAXA/NASA’s Hinode, allowing scientists to make unprecedented measurements of its characteristics.
The current sheet is a long, thin structure, especially visible in the views on the left.
Those two animations depict light emitted by material with higher temperatures, so they better show the extremely hot current sheet.
Credits: NASA/JAXA/SDO/STEREO/Hinode (courtesy Zhu, et al.) These eruptions on the sun eject radiation in all directions.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this imagery of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash –
around 8:30 p.m. EDT on April 17, 2016. A loop of solar material can also be seen rising up off the right limb of the sun.
Credits: NASA/SDO/Goddard
Image: Payload accommodation onboard Solar Orbiter. In this rendering, one side wall has been removed to expose the remote-sensing instruments mounted on the payload panel. The SPICE [Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment} instrument (not visible) is mounted to the top panel from below. Credit: ESA. What Solar Orbiter brings to the mix is an orbit that will allow us to get close-up views of the Sun’s polar regions, with images from latitudes higher than 25 degrees. We should be able to see solar storms building up over an extended period from the same vantage point, because when traveling at the highest velocity along its orbit, Solar Orbiter will come close to matching the speed of the Sun’s rotation on its axis. We will be able to track solar storms for days. Remember that many of the Sun’s jets originate in the areas around the poles, meaning we need more data about the magnetic field and plasma flows there to delve more fully into the process. These are not regions that are visible to us from Earth.
ESA's Solar Orbiter will capture the very first images of the Sun’s polar regions, where magnetic tension builds up and releases in a lively dance. Credits: Spacecraft: ESA/ATG medialab; Sun: NASA/SDO/P. Testa (CfA)
Published on Jun 13, 2017 NASA is planning a mission to get as close as possible as we can to the Sun and reveal its mysteries. Support us at: More stories at: Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: Google+ - Instagram - Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / frasercain@gmail.com Karla Thompson - @karlaii Chad Weber - weber.chad@gmail.com If you’ve watched enough of our videos, you know I’ve got an uneasy alliance with the Sun. Sure, it provides the energy we need for all life on Earth. But, it’s a great big ongoing thermonuclear reaction, and it’s right there! As soon as we get fusion, Sun, in like, 30 years or so, I tell you, we’ll be the ones laughing.
Parker Solar Probe’s trajectory including Venus flybys. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
The Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument captured this image of a coronal streamer on Nov. 8th, 2018. Coronal streamers are structures of solar material within the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, that usually overlie regions of increased solar activity. The fine structure of the streamer is very clear, with at least two rays visible. The bright object near the center of the image is Mercury, and the dark spots are a result of background correction. Credits: NASA/Naval Research Laboratory/Parker Solar Probe
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has sent back a remarkable image.
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Coronal holes are regions in the sun’s atmosphere or corona where solar plasma can stream directly into space. Often a hole will a couple rotations, inciting repeat auroras approximately every 4 weeks. Credit: NASA
Parker Solar Probe’s instruments. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
The Parker Solar Probe orbiting the Sun.(Artist conception) Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will launch this summer(2018) and study both the solar wind and unanswered questions about the Sun’s sizzling corona. Credit:
The Parker Solar Probe will use seven Venus flybys over nearly seven years to gradually shrink its orbit around the Sun, coming as close as 3.7 million miles (5.9 million km), well within the orbit of Mercury. Closest approaches (called perihelia) will happen in late December 2024 and the first half of 2025 before the mission ends. Credit:
During the probe’s closest approach, the Sun’s apparent diameter will span 14° of sky. Compare that to the ½° Sun we see from Earth. Can you imagine how hot the Sun’s rays would be if it were this large from Earth? Life as we know it would be over. Credit: Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be the first-ever mission to "touch" the sun. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, will travel directly into the sun's atmosphere about 4 million miles from our star's surface. Launch is slated for summer 2018. Credit: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory This video is public domain. Learn more about the Parker Solar Probe: This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: Or subscribe to NASA’s Goddard Shorts HD Podcast: Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: · Twitter · Flickr · Instagram · Google+ Category Science & Technology License Standard YouTube License
Illustration of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the Sun. Credits: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Artist’s impression of a solar flare erupting from the Sun’s surface. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Solar Probe Plus will move in a highly elliptical orbit, using seven gravity assists from Venus to move it closer to the Sun with each pass. Solar Orbiter will use Earth and Venus gravity assists to move into a relatively circular orbit and climb up and out of the ecliptic plane to capture the first images of the Sun’s poles. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Scientific Visualization Studio Visualization Credits Tom Bridgman (GST): Lead Animator Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Producer This video is public domain and may be downloaded at: Category Science & Technology
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Solar physicists have been having a field day of late. A variety of missions have been staring at the sun more intently ever before (please don’t try it at home). From the Parker Solar Probe to the Solar Orbiter, we are constantly collecting more and more data about our stellar neighbor. But it’s not just the big name missions that can collect useful data – sometimes information from missions as simple as a sounding rocket make all the difference.
Graphic showing the different layers of the sun, including the chromosphere. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Image of the chromosphere that was taken during a total eclipse in 1999. Credit: Luc Viatour
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Bella Browny • 8 hours ago European Space Agency plans to launch a solar orbiter in 2017 that will
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In the coming years, a number of will be sent to space for the purpose of answering some of the enduring questions about the cosmos. One of the most pressing is the effect that solar activity and “space weather” events have on planet Earth. By being able to better-predict these, scientists will be able to create better early-warning systems that could prevent damage to Earth’s electrical infrastructure.
ESA’s new Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter lofted to space aboard the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on 10 February 2020. Solar Orbiter, an ESA-led mission with strong NASA participation, carries a set of ten instruments for imaging the surface of the Sun and studying the environment in its vicinity. The spacecraft will travel around the Sun on an elliptical orbit that will take it as close as 42 million km away from the Sun’s surface, about a quarter of the distance between the Sun and Earth. The orbit will allow Solar Orbiter to see some of the never-before-imaged regions of the Sun, including the poles, and shed new light on what gives rise to solar wind, which can affect infrastructure on Earth. More about Solar Orbiter: https://www.esa.int/solarorbiter"> ? Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe"> and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications. ? Subscribe:and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications. Check out our full video catalog: Follow us on Twitter: On Facebook: On Instagram: On Flickr: We are Europe's gateway to space. Our mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. Check out to get up to speed on everything space related. Copyright information about our videos is available here:
This includes the Heliospheric Imager (SoloHi), Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE), and the Polarithmic and Helioseismic Imager (PHI), which will image the Sun’s surface and corona. Meanwhile, instruments like the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD), Solar Wind plasma Analyser (SWA), X-ray Spectrometer/Telescope (STIX), and Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) will measure solar wind and the Sun’s magnetic field
The Solar Orbiter lifting off from Cape Canaveral. Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja
Artist’s impression of the Solar Orbiter facing the Sun. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab/NASA/SDO/P. Testa (CfA)
For the first time ever, a spacecraft has flown through the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe passed through the out portion of the Sun’s corona in April of 2021, passing directly through streamers of solar plasma.
As Parker Solar Probe passed through the Sun's corona in early 2021, the spacecraft flew by structures called coronal streamers. These structures can be seen as bright features moving upward and downward in this video compiled from the spacecraft's WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe) instrument. Such a view is only possible because the spacecraft flew above and below the streamers inside the corona. Until now, streamers have only been seen from afar. They are visible from Earth during total solar eclipses. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. Just as landing on the Moon allowed scientists to understand how it was formed, touching the very stuff the Sun is made of will help scientists uncover critical information about our closest star and its influence on the solar system. More information:from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center cientists: Nour Raouafi (Johns Hopkins University/APL) Justin Kasper (University of Michigan) Stuart Bale (University of California, Berkeley) Kelly Korreck (Johns Hopkins University/APL) Adam Szabo (NASA/GSFC) Producer: Joy Ng (KBRwyle) Writer: Mara Johnson-Groh (Wyle Information Systems) Data Visualizer: Tom Bridgman (GST) Animators: Jonathan North (KBRwyle) Ben Smith (Johns Hopkins APL) This video can be freely shared and downloaded at While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram · Twitter- NASA GODDARD · Twitter-NASA GODDARD PICS · Facebook: · Flickr
On March 26th 2022, the ESA’s Solar Orbiter made its closest approach to the Sun so far. It ventured inside Mercury’s orbit and was about one-third the distance from Earth to the Sun. It was hot but worth it.The Solar Orbiter’s primary mission is to understand the connection between the Sun and its heliosphere, and new images from the close approach are helping build that understanding.According to the ESA, the Solar Orbiter is the most complex scientific laboratory ever sent to the Sun. It carries a robust suite of instruments, including a Magnetometer, an Extreme Ultraviolet Imager, a Solar Wind Plasma Analyzer, and others. Its broad range of instruments allows it to observe solar events in multiple ways.
The intriguing feature in the bottom third of the image, below the centre, has been nicknamed the solar hedgehog. At present no one knows exactly what it is or how it formed in the Sun’s atmosphere. The image was captured on 30 March 2022 by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) at a wavelength of 17 nanometres. Just days earlier, Solar Orbiter had passed through its first close perihelion. At just 32 percent the distance of the Earth from the Sun, this placed the spacecraft inside the orbit of the inner planet Mercury. Being closer to the Sun than any previous solar telescope has allowed EUI to take exquisitely detailed images of the solar atmosphere. These are revealing the Sun as never before, and have shown a multitude of intriguing features such as the hedgehog, which although classed as a small-scale feature still measures some 25 000 km across, making it around twice the diameter of the Earth. The gases shown in this image have a temperature of around one million degrees. The image has been colour coded because the original wavelength detected by the instrument is invisible to the human eye. Credits: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team ? Subscribe:and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications. Check out our full video catalog: Follow us on Twitter: On Facebook: On Instagram: On Flickr: We are Europe's gateway to space. Our mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. Check out to get up to speed on everything space related. Copyright information about our videos is available here:
This graphic shows the Solar Orbiter’s role in detecting a CME and forecasting aurora when the CME struck Earth. On 10 March 2022, a solar flare produced a coronal mass ejection (CME) directed at Earth. The cameras on the ESA/NASA mission SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observer) recorded the event at around 22:06 UT. Solar Orbiter also observed it from its viewpoint about 67 million km from the Sun. Image Credit: Central Sun image: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; corona imagery: SOHO (ESA & NASA); Solar Orbiter data: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/MAG & SWA Teams; Wind data: NASA/GSFC/Wind Aurora: J Bant Sexson IV
The awesome energy of the Sun can be readily appreciated in this sequence of images combining data from three instruments on the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft. It shows the way a solar flare on 25 March 2022, one day before Solar Orbiter’s closest approach to the Sun, created a huge disturbance in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the solar corona, leading to a huge quantity of the gas being hurled into space in a coronal mass ejection. The first image was taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument at a wavelength of 17 nanometres. The solar flare is shown by an arrow. The view then zooms out to show what the Metis instrument sees. Metis takes pictures of the corona from 1.7 to 3 solar radii by blotting out the Sun’s bright disc. The final zoom shows the huge coronal mass ejection blasting into space. The data comes from SoloHI, which records images made of sunlight scattered by the electrons in the solar wind. Credits: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team ? Subscribe:and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications. Check out our full video catalog: Follow us on Twitter: On Facebook: On Instagram: On Flickr: We are Europe's gateway to space. Our mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. Check out to get up to speed on everything space related. Copyright information about our videos is available here:
Joining the dots of an energetic particle event
The Sun’s south pole as seen by the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft on 30 March 2022, just four days after the spacecraft passed its closest point yet to the Sun. These images were recorded by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) at a wavelength of 17 nanometers. Many scientific secrets are thought to lie hidden at the solar poles. The magnetic fields that create the great but temporary active regions on the Sun get swept up to the poles before being swallowed back down into the Sun where they are thought to form the magnetic seeds for future solar activity. The lighter areas of the image are mostly created by loops of magnetism that rise upwards from the solar interior. These are called closed magnetic field lines because particles find it hard to cross them, and become trapped, emitting the extreme ultraviolet radiation that EUI is specially designed to record. The darker areas are regions where the Sun’s magnetic field lies open, and so the gasses can escape into space, creating the solar wind. Starting in 2025, Solar Orbiter will use the gravitational pull of Venus to gradually crank up the inclination of its orbit. This will allow the spacecraft’s instruments to investigate the solar poles from a more top-down viewpoint. The colour on this image has been artificially added because the original wavelength detected by the instrument is invisible to the human eye. Credits: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team ? Subscribe:and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications. Check out our full video catalog: Follow us on Twitter: On Facebook: On Instagram: On Flickr: We are Europe's gateway to space. Our mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. Check out to get up to speed on everything space related. Copyright information about our videos is available here:
Animation showing the trajectory of Solar Orbiter around the Sun, highlighting the gravity assist manoeuvres that will enable the spacecraft to change inclination to observe the Sun from different perspectives. During the initial cruise phase, which lasts until November 2021, Solar Orbiter will perform two gravity-assist manoeuvres around Venus and one around Earth to alter the spacecraft’s trajectory, guiding it towards the innermost regions of the Solar System. At the same time, Solar Orbiter will acquire in situ data and characterise and calibrate its remote-sensing instruments. The first close solar pass will take place in 2022 at around a third of Earth’s distance from the Sun. The spacecraft’s orbit has been chosen to be ‘in resonance’ with Venus, which means that it will return to the planet’s vicinity every few orbits and can again use the planet’s gravity to alter or tilt its orbit. Initially Solar Orbiter will be confined to the same plane as the planets, but each encounter of Venus will increase its orbital inclination. For example, after the 2025 Venus encounter it will make its first solar pass at 17º inclination, increasing to 33º during a proposed mission extension phase, bringing even more of the polar regions into direct view. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab
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A 300 megapixel photo of our Sun, taken by using a specially modified telescope, compiling over 150,000 individual images. Credit and copyright: Andrew McCarthy.
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