Sit back , relax , and search flat at the sun just this once .
The Solar Dynamics Observatory keeps a cheeseparing watch on our sun , give chase sunspots , coronal mass ejections , and everything in between to learn more about our nearest star . Now you could bask in the smasher of our unearthly and wonderful Sun , twisting gas warped by its own magnetic theater of operations , for a half - minute of science - intensive relaxation .
The observation tower takes a photograph of the sun every twelve seconds ; it takes about 10 hour of piece of work to string along those picture into a minute of footage .
This 30 - minute collage capture the Sun at 10 different wavelength , each specifically select to see at a different aspect of the star ’s construction :
450.0 New Mexico : Photosphere , the Sunday ’s surface . This is drab - violet seeable light , the lily-white light continuum at 6,000 Kelvin and what we ’d see with our nude eyes if it were n’t so hopeful . Sunspots seem as sour spot .
170.0 nm : Chromosphere , just above the photosphere where the temperature set about to rise . Ultraviolet ignitor .
160.0 nanometre : Upper photosphere and transition area between the chromosphere and corona where the temperature arise speedily . Emission line of carbon-4 at 10,000 Kelvin .
33.5 nanometre : raging , magnetically alive region of the corona ( the Sun ’s aura ) . The discharge production line at iron-16 at 2.5 million Kelvin ; the most magnetically active region are bright in this wavelength while dark areas are crack in the Sun ’s magnetic field of view .
30.4 nm : Chromosphere and transition realm . This is the discharge lineage of helium-2 at 50,000 Kelvin ; mellow - density plasma grow brightest in this wavelength with darker region indicating low - density blood plasma .
21.1 Land of Enchantment : Hotter , magnetically active part of the St. Elmo’s fire . The expelling line of iron-14 at 2 million Kelvin , mark the active region of the Sun including Saint Elmo’s fire , solar flare , and coronal sight .
19.3 nm : Hotter Saint Elmo’s light including solar flares . This is the discharge telephone line for iron-12 at 1 million Kelvin , indicating the hotter corona part , and iron-24 at 20 million Kelvin , indicating flare plasma .
17.1 nanometer : Quiet corona , the coolest area of the sun ’s air including coronal loops ( giant magnetised arcs ) . This is the emanation line of iron-9 at 600,000 Kelvin , where brightness point region where the magnetized line of business is specially strong .
13.1 nm : Hottest stuff of a flare . emanation logical argument of iron-20 and iron-23 above 10 million kelvin .
9.4 nm : Solar flares . This is the emission line of iron-18 hot up to 6 million Kelvin .
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