This video was made by NASA’s recently launched Solar Dynamic Observatory. It was launched in Feb 2010 and captured this huge solar flare on Mar 30.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory is now NASA’s best eye on the sun, with a resolution far-exceeding any previous telescope. It will send 1.5 terabytes of data to Earth every day. With the more precise data and the SDO’s ability to see the whole sun at once, scientists anticipate that they’ll be able to solve some longstanding questions about how the sun’s magnetic field works.
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