Comparison: Solar Maximum from SOHO/EIT
A short movie of the Sun at maximum solar activity as seen in ultraviolet light. These images are collected in ultraviolet light (a wavelength of 195Å or 19.5 nanometers) which is only visible to space-based instruments. In visible light, the bright white regions in these images would probably correspond to sunspots.
At solar maximum, we see many bright active regions which tend to form in bands in the northern and southern hemispheres. Many of the active regions may eventually launch solar flares or coronal mass ejections (CME).
A short movie of the Sun around the time of maximum solar activity.
This is a longer run of SOHO/EIT data showing the Sun at solar maximum.
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Steele Hill (RSIS)
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producer
- Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, September 10, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
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SOHO/EIT 195 (195 Filter) [SOHO: Extreme-UV Imaging Telescope (EIT)]
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