More Wow! from SDO

[ellarien]

On second thoughts, I'm putting it behind a cut, because it is rather big. But it's pretty, and dynamic, and very, very pink. Which is an artistic choice on the part of the scientists; I suppose eventually we'll get used to 304 Angstroms being magenta instead of the black-body orange EIT has been using. The pink frame was my choice, though.

Found via Facebook. (Seriously, if you like this kind of thing and can stand Facebook, it's worth friending Little SDO over there. Only then you have to be a bit careful what you share with friends-of-friends, because zie has a LOT of friends.)

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[ellarien]

That reminds me that the five-minute oscillations that we use for helioseismology were originally considered as a nuisance "noise" effect.

If they've named the various bits of crud on that CCD, they haven't shared the names with the public yet.