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Our Beautiful Sun

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2013-04-25
1 min read

As Summer approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, we can look forward to enjoying more of the sun’s warmth and light. It is this light that allows to record pictures. This video from NASA distils 3 year’s of sun watching by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) into 3 minutes, at a pace of two images per day.

Notable events:

00:30 Partial eclipse by the moon

00:31 Roll maneuver

01:11 August 9, 2011 X6.9 Flare, currently the largest of this solar cycle

01:28 Comet Lovejoy, December 15, 2011

01:42 Roll Maneuver

01:51 Transit of Venus, June 5, 2012

02:28 Partial eclipse by the moon

via thestar

 

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