NASA Reveals Solar Dynamics Observatory's First Fiery Images

I see only one picture and a looped computer generated .gif........

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The top photo and the video show the type of activity one expects at about 700 million meters (i.e., ~7 x 10^8 m) or 0.00465 AU away from the compact, energetic neutron star that is at the core of the Sun.

See: "The Sun is a plasma diffuser that sorts atoms by mass", Physics of Atomic Nuclei 69 (2006) 1847-1856; arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0609509 or "Earth's heat source - the Sun", Energy and Environment 20 (2009) 131-144; arxiv.org/pdf/0905.0704

With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Emeritus Professor
Nuclear & Space Science
Former NASA Principal Investigator for Apollo

Ha! more pictures. wonderful

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They seam to be more and more interested in the sun these days wounder if they are exspecting a solar wind to nock out are coms. or just completly strip off the ATMOSPHERE!

@dWb Those are both possible and since they just realized it reacts with the moon's regolith to create water molecules and ejects harmful radiation for astronauts there's a lot to know about the sun!

Very cool pictures, was waiting for this stuff to come out!

one word, beautiful
but one equation,.............. E = mc2 √(1 + p2m − 2c − 2)

Wow, that's amazing!

Just curious how many earths could fit inside the solar flare in that video? It's daunting to see all the amazing images just from our own tiny little star, let alone think of what could be in our solar system. It's enough to make your brain explode just imagining what exists in our galaxy....the universe. Man, I got the munchies.

@sleep123

Did a lazy copy paste into PPT to get the scale of the sun in that picture that leads the story showing a similar (or the same?) flare:

Sun's diam = 865,000 miles
Earth's diam = 7,900 miles
flare max width = 7/8" vs. ~5" for the Sun in the photo

==> flare is ~152,000 max height from the surface of the sun, therefore, 19 earths could fit in there side by side...assuming my scaling is correct ... ;)

Lots more earths would be needed to fill in the 2D volume represented by the flare of course, but you get the picture....

Description of Sun and other stars as per Holy Quran
At the time of the descent of the Holy Quran, no one on earth knows the true reality of the sun. But Allah, who created the sun, described it precisely saying: And We have made (therein) a shinning lamp (sun) (Quran Chapter - 78:13). This verse emphasizes that the sun is a lamp and lamp is a machine for burning fuel and the generation of light and
heat. This is what the sun does; it burns fuel and generates light, heat and radiation. We benefit a lot from the light and heat of the sun. But just as one must be shielded safely
from a lamp’s power to burn, we must be safely shielded from the Sun as well. Thus it is scientifically very accurate to label the sun as a lamp.
But is there something even bigger than the sun?
The star Antares dwarfs our sun. on a real scale, our sun and the star Arcturus with the giant Antares.The entire orbit of the Antares is 300 Million Km! The smaller star to the side is Arcturus.It is a mere 20 Million Kilometers. And our bright sun is the small dot on the top. If Antares were placed in the center of our solar system, its outer surface would lie between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
So are there more stars like Antares, or is it the only one?
There certainly are many…….
Quran Says: Verily! We have adorned the near heaven with the stars (for beauty). (Quran Chapter - 37:6)
Praise be to Allah, A sky filled with stars like Antares. But is there something bigger than Antares? There certainly is….! Comparison on a real scale of our Sun and the small sliver
on the side of largest star discovered in the universe! It would take over 7,000,000,000,000,000 (7 quadrillion)
Earths to fill the volume of VY Canis Majoris!!!
Praise be to Allah, My mind is truly humbled and numbed by this comparison. I cannot even imagine its vastness. Is there something bigger than VY Canis Majoris? Certainly there is….! In recent times scientists have discovered the existence of pulsars. Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that emit beams of radiation. Their radiation can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing straight towards the Earth. This lighthouse effect causes an observed pulsed nature that gives pulsars their name. The
first pulsar was observed on November 28, 1967. Pulsars make sounds like a hammer or knock, and the radiations they emit can penetrate and puncture anything including the earth. The link below is to sounds of pulsars from Cornell University’s database. From this database please listen to: “B1933+16 One of the brightest known pulsars--every pulse is audible”; And also listen to the third file in the set: “B2020+28 A bright pulsar, most individual pulses are audible”. Notice how the sounds seem like a knocking in the stillness of the night – You can find at .astro.cornell.edu web site.
This is what summed up for us in the verse of the Quran wonderfully, Allah gives a description of these stars through two words:By the heavens, and At-Târiq (one who knocks at night); And what will make you to know what At-Târiq is? (It is) the star of piercing (brightness)( Quran Chapter 86:1-3); The word “Tariq” accurately reflect the action or audio waves of these stars – knocking sounds, and the word “Thaqib” accurately reflect the outputs of these stars – penetrating waves, Is Pulsar the only thing that hugely endangers us with radiation or is there something that endangers us also? There certainly is …… and it is much nearer to us than the pulsars.
Praise be to Allah, what good information. My mind keeps going back to the huge pulsars. Is there something more in the universe of even more significance? Certainly there is!......Scientists have recently discovered the existence of black
holes they called Stars, and is characterized by three properties: 1 – it cannot be seen, 2 - are at high speeds, 3 - to attract everything as if the sweep everything from the sky. It works like a broom of the Universe, gathering all the celestial debris.These are the three qualities that are told to us in the Quran in three words: So verily, I swear by the (planets) receded. And by the planets that move swiftly and hide (Quran Chapter 81:15-16)
First word “AlKhunnas” means any that cannot be seen; Second “AlJawar”i.e that which moves swiftly and Third “AlKunnas” i.e that which sweeps and gathers everything to itself. This verse of the Quran are a frontrunner in talking about black holes before they were even discovered by the scientists.
Praise be to Allah, This is amazing. Tell me, If the sun can burn us and pulsars emit such harmful radiations and the blackholes sweep everything up, how safe are we? Allah took care of that for us. Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field is very strong and this area
as we see it repels particles emitted from the Sun called the solar wind, deadly, and without the presence of this field vanished life on Earth. So the Almighty said:And We have made the heaven a roof, safe and well guarded. Yet they turn away from its signs.(Quran Chapter 21:32)
This magnetic field also manifests it self in other ways. The polar aurora, which appears in the Arctic region. Generally speaking, this phenomenon is the most amazing natural phenomena. It took scientists many years to learn their secrets, and finally turned out to be formed because of the Earth's magnetic field. This aurora is the Earth’s defense mechanism. The deadly solar wind, instead of “burning us”, is itself dissipated,
deflected and “burned” away from us by this magnetic field. See this magnificent view, Is it not worthy of this great phenomenon that is sworn by Allah? Allah says in Quran Chapter 84 16-21 : So I swear by the afterglow of sunset; (16) And by the night and whatever it gathers in its darkness; (17) And by the moon when it is at the full, (18) You shall certainly travel from stage to stage (in this life and in the Hereafter). (19) What is the matter with them that they believe not? (20) And when the Quran is recited to them, they fall not prostrate, (21) {Note: Please do prostrate when you read this verse}
Praise be to Allah , He has made for us a protection.My mind keeps going back to the great celestial bodies,Antares which is 300 Million Kilometers in size, and VY Canis Majoris which is as big as 7 quadrillion Earths And pulsars like AtTariq and AlKunnas.
Tell me something more, Is there something bigger than it?There certainly is something bigger, it is called a Galaxy.The Galaxies are a system of stars and planets. They are
huge, planets and stars Antares, VY Canis Majoris and Pulsars are just like small specs of dust in it! Typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million stars up to giant galaxies with one trillion stars, all orbiting the galaxy's center of mass. Galaxies can also contain many multiple star systems, star clusters, and various interstellar clouds. Most galaxies are 1,000 to 100,000 parsecs in diameter. The parsec measurement unit is used in astronomy. The parsec is a unit of length, equal to just under 31 trillion kilometers (about 19 trillion miles), or about 3.26 light-years. Although it is not yet well understood, “dark matter” appears to account for around 90% of the mass of most galaxies. Observational data suggests that super-massive black holes may exist at the center of many, if not all, galaxies. Praise be to Allah, what a huge size. Is there something bigger than it? There certainly is! The Galactic Filaments and Sheets. The Universe has countless numbers of Galaxies. There are probably more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Perhaps many Trillions more exist in the universe we have not yet observed! Galaxies are usually separated by distances on the order of millions of parsecs (or megaparsecs). Intergalactic space (the space between galaxies) is filled with a tenuous gas of an average density less than one atom per cubic meter. The majority of galaxies are organized into a hierarchy of associations called clusters, which, in turn, can form larger groups called superclusters. These larger structures are generally arranged into sheets and filaments, which surround immense voids in the universe.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Taala says: By the heaven full of Hubuk ( paths, fibers, weave) (Quran Chapter 51:7)
The Great Wall (also called Coma Wall), is one of largest known super-structures in the Universe. It is a filament or a filament wall of galaxies which measure over 500 million
light-years long, 300 million light-years wide and 15 million light-years thick. It was discovered in 1989. It is not known how much farther the wall extends due to the plane
of the Milky Way galaxy in which Earth is located. The gas and dust from the Milky Way obscures the view of astronomers and have so far made it impossible to determine if the wall ends or continues on further than they can currently observe! These sheets and filaments weave together like a textile cloth. In this big weave the giant galaxies are just like small glittering specs! And there is some thing bigger than it! The Building of the Universe……….At first, scientists thought that the universe is mostly vacuum, and they gave it the name “space”. In the late twentieth century, scientists have discovered something new. They found that the universe is certainly like a building made of small blocks. The conventional model for galaxy evolution predicts that small galaxies in the early Universe formed into the massive galaxies of today by coalescing into clusters, superclusters, filaments and sheets.These are the “small” lego-like building blocks that make the structure or building of the universe. Lego-like “building blocks” initially detected by Hubble likely contributed to the visual construction of the Universe as we know it. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope observations confirmed that these galaxies are some of the smallest blocks of the Universe which is made like a building. There are “voids”, “walls”, cluster areas or “rooms”, vast hallways and “passages”. Current interpretations of astronomical observations indicate that the age of the Universe is 13.73 billion years, and that the diameter of the observable universe is at least 93 billion light years. This is just the part of the universe that we can observe. Only Allah knows what else there is in the universe and how big it really is. There is much work that still need to be done in cosmology to even start to appreciate the large-scale structure of the universe.
This is truly mind boggling….Something that that the mind finds difficult to imagine. Is than some thing bigger than this? Something that will make it all look like a spec of dust? Certainly there is!! There is something bigger so big that it will make all of the above like a spec of dust. AnNaar - The Hellfire The stones of the universe and human beings and jinn will be but only the fuel that burns in it.Allah Subhanahu Wa Taala says: O you who believe! Ward off from yourselves and your families against a Fire (Hell) whose fuel is men and stones, over which are (appointed) angels stern (and) severe, who disobey not, (from executing) the Commands they receive from Allâh, but do that which they are commanded.
And there is something bigger so big that it will make it like a spec of dust.

AlJannah - The Heaven The Jannah is more gracious and spacious, for indeed The Mercy and Forgiveness of our Rabb has overcome His Anger. He has prepared for the believers “And vie one with another for forgiveness from your Lord, and for a paradise as wide as are the heavens and the earth, prepared for Al-Muttaqûn (the pious)” (Quran Chapter 3:133);
And yes there is some thing bigger than AlJannah and AnNaar. Some thing so big that it that will make them look small ! AlArsh ArRahman The Throne of ArRahman It is greater, for indeed it encompasses over all creations.Allah Subhanahu Wa Taala says about it: His Kursî (foot-stool) extends over the heavens and the earth (Quran Chapter 2:255). Its beauty and magnificence cannot be described. We can only say that it is befitting to be called His Throne.
Below it is nothing but the entirety of His creations and above it is none other than Yes, You guessed it!there is more majestic than it too! Allah SubhanahuWaTaala Himself And the Glorious Throne is nothing more than a spec of dust in front of THE MAJESTY OF ALLAH ALMIGHTY ALONE. He is Allâh, beside Whom Lâ ilâha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He) the All-Knower of the unseen and the seen. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. (22) He is Allâh beside Whom is Lâ ilâha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He) the King, the Holy, the One Free from all
defects, the Giver of security, the Watcher over His creatures, the All-Mighty, the Compeller, the Supreme. Glory be to Allâh! (High is He) above all that they associate as partners with Him. (23) He is Allâh, the Creator, the Inventor of all things, the Bestower of forms. To Him belong the Best Names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorify Him. And He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.(24) (Quran Chapter 59:22-24)
This where everything ends because He Subhanahu Wa Taala is The First and The Last.

When they look at the sun, they use filters, so we can always see just a part of the spectrum of it's surface. But sun doesn't really have a solid surface and radiates whole spectrum of light.
So I don't really understand, are those pictures of the same layer, or do we always see the sun a little different, it's surface on different highs, as they change detection methods.
As I understand, sun is created in space between other stars, when their gravity compressed cosmic dust, other stars left behind. Stars are still connected trough gravity and electromagnetic forces, so are we, standing on a frozen piece of it. Like other stars are guiding it, how to bend space inside and breath light, to form a stable, healthy solar system.
I wonder what sun does to planets, are they just a natural phenomenon without any special purpose, or sun is changing each one of them, when life is created and pushed trough solar system, while sun is preparing planets for it.
Sun is a bringer of life for us, but not the God himself. It's beautiful and when I look at it for a moment, I like to think, how reflection of God can be seen trough it, always giving me strength to go on.

Wow, this is stunning, that's for sure ! Thanks for these greats pics !

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Nostradamus wrote:

"MABUS will soon die and there will happen
dreadful destruction of people and animals.
Suddenly, vengeance will appear, a hundred
hands, thirst and hunger, when the comet passes

comet is a CME.

Awesome!

I saw this satellite being launched a few months back, and that was really anti climactic to the incredible photo's and video that it's now sending back. I'm going to try and do some more solar observing with my own telescope which I've suited with a mylar solar filter. Still only plan to look via my video scope attachment. The SDO Program has re-ignighted my interest in solar observation.

@saviour.

I hate to be the bad guy here, but please don't waste space and time by preaching to people who most likely dont care about what you say. Its people who are overly religious like yourself that spur on negative stereotypes about people of various religions. Besides, how many people do you think actually read all of that?

Nothing personal.