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An instrument on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured its 100 millionth image of the sun. The instrument is the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, or AIA, which uses four telescopes working parallel to gather eight images of the sun—cycling through 10 different wavelengths—every 12 seconds. This is a processed image of SDO multiwavelength blend from Jan. 19, 2015, the date of the spacecraft’s 100th millionth image release.
Between the AIA and two other instruments on board, the Helioseismic Magnetic Imager and the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment, SDO sends down a whopping 1.5 terabytes of data a day. In the almost five years since its launch on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO has provided images of the sun to help scientists better understand how the roiling corona gets to temperatures some 1000 times hotter than the sun’s surface, what causes giant eruptions such as solar flares, and why the sun’s magnetic fields are constantly on the move. (twistedsifter.com)
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patw

You're welcome, Bill.

Bill_I_Am

Very cool image! Thanks Pat.

dris651

Always glad to provide a chuckle, Marilee and Pat. ;-D

patw

:-D

Tincup

I liked that one, Andy. Very much.

dris651

Wow, the 100 millionth image! That might even be as many as Kim Kardashian selfies...

patw

There is another important factor in the most recent imagery which isn't talked about in the information from Twisted Sifter. It is that technological advance that explains the variations in color (which I wondered about) and is touched upon in the second reference below, Quilt.

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/nustar/sun-sizzles-in-high-energy-x-rays/#.VMus1GjF81I

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia18906

quilt65

I am in awe! Just amazing photo. It's like a Mad magazine. The more you look, the more you see. It's a puzzle and yet it still hurt my eyes. Great, great puzzle. Thanks for sharing.

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