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No, there's really not much point in sitting here at stupid a.m. waiting for the poor neglected daemons of the old and mostly superseded data system to serve me up the data with which I am not really awake enough to deal at the moment. (You know the old saw about the problem with standards?)

Shiny new embargoed data is getting unveiled in a NASA press conference at 2.15pm EDT on Wednesday, which is not actually tomorrow any more except possibly in Hawaii. It would be nice to be somewhat awake to enjoy that.

Now it can be told

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/firstlight/

Go look, and wonder. And stay tuned.

Whee!

Erupting Prominence Observed by SDO on March 30, 2010
Originally uploaded by NASA Goddard Photo and Video.

Wheee!