Whee!

[ellarien]

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

Wheee!

Comments

[dendrophilous]

Wow, those are really neat images.

[ellarien]

And what's more, they're capturing the whole Sun at that level of detail, three or four times a minute in several different wavelengths. 24/7/365, barring brief eclipses, for the next several years if all goes well.

I've been studying the solar interior for the last twenty-odd years, and those images are almost enough to make me contemplate switching fields.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

This series of photos made the BBC World Service news bulletins. I can see why!

[ellarien]

They are rather gorgeous. And somebody made a masterful choice of color table -- the images are still fascinating in grayscale, but the color makes them beautiful.