Solar Close-ups with Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope

  • Released Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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A collection of movies generated from the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) of the JAXA/NASA Hinode mission.

A view of the limb of the Sun, in the H-line of singly-ionized calcium. A sunspot is visible as are many spicules (the grass-like wavy things).

A flare erupts in the over a sunspot on December 13, 2006. This movie uses the filter for the G-band in visible light. This flare is also examined in the feature on Space Weather Modeling.

A flare erupts in the over a sunspot on December 13, 2006. This movie uses the filter for the H-line of ionized calcium. This flare is also examined in the feature on Space Weather Modeling.

A closeup on solar convection cells with a small sunspot forming (on the right).

Close-up view of a sunspot in the G-Band from January 5, 2007.

A magnetogram of the solar photosphere illustrating the high variability of the solar magnetic field. White is positive (north) polarity and black is negative (south) polarity.

Hinode observes Venus as it passes between Earth and the Sun on June 5, 2012.

A sunspot on the limb of the Sun, in the light of the H-line of singly-ionized calcium.

A sunspot on the limb of the Sun, in the light of the H-line of singly-ionized calcium. The region brightens during a solar flare.

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This page was originally published on Tuesday, April 16, 2013.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at 12:03 AM EDT.

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