Blue Sun
Our Sun can be made to appear similar to a blueberry, by imaging it in a specific color of extreme violet light called CaK that is emitted by the very slight abundance of ionized Calcium in the Sun’s atmosphere, and then false color-inverting the image. Image © Alan Friedman (Averted Imagination)
Sun’s Most Powerful Solar Flare of the Year
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an M6.5 class flare at 3:16 am EDT on April 11, 2013. This image shows a combination of light in wavelengths of 131 and 171 Angstroms. Image © NASA/SDO
Earth’s Magnetosphere behaves like a Sieve
ESA’s quartet of satellites has discovered that Earth’s Magnetosphere behaves like a sieve in orbit, and that our protective magnetic bubble lets the solar wind in under a wider range of conditions than previously believed.
Inverted Sun and Starfield
If this dark ball look somehow familiar, it’s because it’s our Sun. In the above image, the Sun and a starfield are color inverted. Image credit: Jim Lafferty Used with permission.
Sounds of Space
An audio of the phenomenon known as “chorus” radio waves within Earth’s magnetosphere that are audible to the human ear, was recorded by RBSP’s Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS). Visualization built by Greg Shirah and Tom Bridgman, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Caption by Mike Carlowicz -Watch the video after the jump
Magnificent CME Erupts on the Sun
A long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the Sun‘s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second, held on August 31, 2012 at 4:36 p.m. EDT. Watch the video
Hidden Magnetic Portals Around Earth
According to NASA, Jack Scudder from the University of Iowa, has found “hidden portals on Earth’s magnetic field creating an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun.” The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will study these portals. Credit: Science@NASA
The brilliant Power of Earth’s Magnetosphere
A video from NASA showing the agency’s data visualization skills, with the creation of the animation of Sun’s powerful coronal mass ejections and their interactions with the Earth’s magnetosphere and climate.
Northern Lights in clouds
A large solar coronal mass ejection smacked into planet Earth’s magnetosphere producing a severe geomagnetic storm and wide spread auroras. Photographer Fredrick Broms (Northern Lights Photography)
Planet Aurora Borealis
This remarkable little planet is covered with ice and snow and ringed by tall pine trees. Of course, is actually planet Earth, and the surrounding stars are above the horizon near Östersund, Sweden. The pale greenish illumination is from a curtain of shimmering Aurora Borealis also known as the Northern Lights. Photographer: Göran Strand
