The moon passed between NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the sun for the first time last week, yielding this incredible eclipse photograph. Sorry, awesome solar flare in the bottom left corner, you’ll have to share the spotlight this time.
This is the deathliest place in the solar system, photographed as never before by NASA’s new Solar Dynamics Observatory. It’s one of the first humbling images of our mighty Sun returned by the spacecraft. The video is terrifying:
This is the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly. Together with the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, and the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment, it will capture the Sun at IMAX resolution every 10 seconds. They will travel together inside NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.
