For three years the Observatory ‘Solar Dynamics’ (SDO its acronym in English) spacecraft has observed our star. The images you captured during this time, one for every 12 seconds and with 10 different wavelengths, together form an impressive video moving Sun .
“With these wavelengths is easy to observe the 25-day rotation of the Sun , as well as its increased activity in the last three years,” NASA said in a statement.
telescope carries with scientific instrumentation that lets you measure the ultraviolet emission and study the variability and magnetic activity of the Sun .
Although images are stable throughout the period of time in the video resizing appreciate the star. The project explained, however, that it is not only the effect of the distance between the SDO and the Sun’s surface
With SDO mission scientists have been able to directly observe the activity different regions of the Sun and various solar explosions on the surface . “The mission helps us understand the causes of these explosions. We hope that someday we can improve our ability to predict space weather “, says one of the project managers in relation to the various environmental changes in space.
SDO mission was launched into space in February 2010 with a series of instruments capable of observe the sun for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week . Space Telescope orbits the Earth at about 36,000 miles of it, and sends up to 1.5 terabytes of data to the ground station , located in New Mexico.
The mission was launched with the intention of studying our star for five years and three months, but NASA arises extend it to 10 years .
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