NASA Solar Satellite's First Sun Images

coondoggie writes "NASA today showed off the amazing first pictures of the Sun taken from its 6,800lb Solar Dynamics Observatory flying at an orbit 22,300 miles above Earth. The first images show a variety of activity NASA says provide never-before-seen detail of material streaming outward and away from sunspots. Others show extreme close-ups of activity on the sun's surface. The spacecraft also has made the first high-resolution measurements of solar flares in a broad range of extreme ultraviolet wavelengths."

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Rather Large Image for the Article

[eldavojohn]

I believe NetworkWorld may have been less than prudent in failing to put a thumbnail in place of scaling a 4,096 x 4,096 image totaling 8.6 MB down to 300 x 400. Although I guess since they are sourcing it from nasa.gov this slashdotting is going to come at the taxpayer's expense? :-)

I didn't see a link in the article, but here's the original NASA press release.

Re:Video

[shadowbearer]

  Better article

  This is incredible stuff. The CNN author called it "Hubble for the sun" and that's exactly what it is.

SB

A Link to Several Movies

[catchblue22]

I found that this link provides access to several high quality movies that downloaded quite quickly. They are very interesting to watch.