Thread: Space image of week.

Originally Posted by ShaneFalco

so yea i glance at SOHO and coronal holes quite often, never seen one as big as the one above on the sun before.

Soho?

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

solar and heliospheric observatory

massive

wow

https://www.newscientist.com/article...ther-universe/

Mystery bright spots could be first glimpse of another universe

Light given off by hydrogen shortly after the big bang has left some unexplained bright patches in space. Are they evidence of bumping into another universe?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/humans-ge...231011600.html

This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 8 degrees above the ring plane. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on March 7, 2015 using a spectral filter that preferentially admits wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers.

Watch this in youtube with highest quality /rez/full screen



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.

They show a Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun in HQ around 4min, very amazing stuff.


You see the waves ripple across the surface for thousands of miles.

Hey Shane, there's a show on the science channel called "Telescope" about the James Webb telescope. It just aired Saturday but comes on a lot. You should check it out. I am really looking forward to this thing in L2 orbit sending back photos 10x better than Hubble or Keppler.

NASA page about JWST

This is the first image of the gas giant’s north pole.

Originally Posted by Davii

Hey Shane, there's a show on the science channel called "Telescope" about the James Webb telescope. It just aired Saturday but comes on a lot. You should check it out. I am really looking forward to this thing in L2 orbit sending back photos 10x better than Hubble or Keppler.

NASA page about JWST

you know when it is being launched?

Originally Posted by ShaneFalco

you know when it is being launched?

October 2018

mind blown.