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Cool video: Jupiter, its moons, a comet, and...the Sun?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/05/16 11:45 CDT | 1 comments
Here's a neat video posted by SungrazerComets (the Twitter identity of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Sungrazing Comets website) this morning. It's an animation of images taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on May 13 and 14, when Jupiter was passing through solar conjunction
"False-tonal recording?" The sounds of a coronal mass ejection
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/03/15 12:26 CDT
A new "sonification" of the recent solar storm by Robert Alexander (a University of Michigan graduate student), employing data from the MESSENGER and SOHO spacecraft.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/03/07 09:27 CST
Last night the Sun unleashed a large coronal mass ejection in our direction. Here is a compilation of images from SOHO's two LASCO cameras, plus a prediction from the new space weather prediction model that I learned about at the American Geophysical Union in December. The storm will arrive at Earth on March 8.
Posted by Jason Davis on 2012/01/26 05:26 CST
Before automated space observatories like SDO could send pictures and videos of solar phenomenon in real-time, humans had to do it manually, as in the case of the groundbreaking Skylab space station missions, which featured the Apollo Telescope Mount.
Video: Comet Lovejoy entered SOHO's LASCO C3 field of view this morning!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/12/14 09:37 CST
An animation of comet Lovejoy entering the field of view of one of SOHO's Sun-monitoring cameras.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/12/06 02:39 CST
Emily reports from the Fall 2011 American Geophyisical Union meeting about advancements in space weather prediction.











