ellarien: Image of the Sun at multiple wavelengths, with prominence (astronomy2)
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Here's the Sun in 171 Angstroms today:



and here's how it looked a year ago:



That's the solar cycle (finally!) in action.

I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at data from very early in the life of SDO, when sunspots were few and far between, and it's startling to look at the current Sun -- now sporting the most sunspots so far this cycle -- and see how much things have changed.

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