SDO's Multi-wavelength View of a May 2013 Solar Flare
An active region on the left limb of the Sun launches a large flare and coronal material in this sequence from early May 2013.
A view of the flare in the 13.1nm filter. The flare mode alters the exposure of the camera which results in some flickering in the exposure-adjusted images due to the changing relative levels of the noise. The bright vertical line through the flare is due to excess charge in the pixels receiving the flare leaking out through the readout line in the CCD. The 'waffle' pattern is also an artifact of the imaging system with bright events.
In the filter for 17.1nm light, the flare is not as bright, but exhibits twisting hot plasma that erupts from the Sun.
In the 30.4nm wavelength of the helium ion, we can see both the flare, as well as some of the ejected solar material.
4Kx4K full resolution images. A view of the flare in the 13.1nm filter. The flare mode alters the exposure of the camera which results in some flickering in the exposure-adjusted images due to the changing relative levels of the noise. The bright vertical line through the flare is due to excess charge in the pixels receiving the flare leaking out through the readout line in the CCD. The 'waffle' pattern is also an artifact of the imaging system with bright events.
4Kx4K full resolution images. In the filter for 17.1nm light, the flare is not as bright, but exhibits twisting hot plasma that erupts from the Sun.
4Kx4K full resolution images. In the 30.4nm wavelength of the helium ion, we can see both the flare, as well as some of the ejected solar material.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, the SDO Science Team, and the Virtual Solar Observatory.
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (USRA)
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Scientist
- None None (SDO Science Team and the Virtual Solar Observatory)
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Project support
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, February 11, 2014.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:04 AM EST.
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AIA 304 (304 Filter) [SDO: AIA]
ID: 677This dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
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AIA 171 (171 Filter) [SDO: AIA]
ID: 680This dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
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AIA 131 (131 Filter) [SDO: AIA]
ID: 730This dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
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