New Weekly Sun Fix: SDO's Pick of the Week
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class="wp-caption-text">View of action on the Sun during this past week. Credit: NASA/SDO team
Images and data are starting to roll in from the href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-sun/solar/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Solar Dynamics Observatory, and the images are nothing short of stunning. So, the SDO website has started a couple of new image gallery features, which will provide a "best of" weekly fix without overloading your href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-sun/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Sun senses (and no sunscreen needed!) The first one is href="http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/potw.php">Pick of the Week. The image above is the first "pick" and what a pick it is! This SDO close-up shows a href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-sun/filament/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">filament and active region on href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-sun/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">the Sun, taken in extreme UV light on May 18, 2010. It shows a dark and elongated filament hovering above the Sun?s surface, with bright regions beneath it. The href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-sun/filament/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">filaments are cooler clouds of gas that are suspended by tenuous magnetic fields that are often unstable and commonly href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/volcanic-eruption/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">erupt. This one is estimated to be at least 60 href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Earth diameters long (about 805,000 km, or 500,000 miles). Wowza!
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See below for another new SDO feature, Hot Shots./> (...)
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