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<p dir="ltr">That's the sun as no one has ever experienced it. The light used to take those pictures has a wavelength about 30 times shorter than violet visible light, comparable to the difference between six meters versus 160 meters.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Fun Solar Facts:<br>
1. It takes the sun about a month to rotate on its axis, so the features shown in the movie take about two weeks to go from one side of the solar disc to the other.<br>
2. The sunspot cycle is about eleven years and we are currently just about at minimum, so the whole movie goes from a minimum, through a maximum and back to a minimum.<br>
3. As the sunspot cycle goes to maximum, the sunspots tend to occur at progressively lower latitudes.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Me ke aloha<br>
-- Marla</p>
<br><br>On July 8, 2020, at 14:32, Bruce Anderson <w1lus@hotmail.com> wrote:<br><br><br></font><html>
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Dynamics Observatory</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 248); display: inline !important"><span> </span>has been consistently taking pictures of the sun -- one every three-quarters
of a second -- across a number of different wavelengths. Images of the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 17.1 nanometers reveals the sun's corona, and hourly corona pictures have been combined into a<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/watch-a-10-year-time-lapse-of-sun-from-nasa-s-sdo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: blue; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 248)">time-lapse
movie of the last decade of solar activity, condensed into about 60 minutes</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 248); display: inline !important">. </span><br>
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