NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Caught the Sun “Smiling”

Smiling Sun NASA SDO

An image of the Sun “smiling” was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on October 26, 2022. Credit: NASA/SDO

Say cheese!

On October 26, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) caught the Sun “smiling.” Seen in ultraviolet light, these dark patches on the Sun are known as coronal holes and are regions where fast solar wind gushes out into space.

SDO Artist's Concept

Artist’s concept of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

SDO has studied how the Sun creates solar activity and drives space weather since its launch in 2010. Its observations begin in the interior of the Sun with the solar dynamo — the churning of the Sun’s interior that creates its magnetic field and drives space weather. Further out, SDO observes the solar surface to directly measure the magnetic field and the solar atmosphere. Finally, SDO measures the extreme ultraviolet irradiance of the Sun which is a key driver of the structure and composition of the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

3 Comments on "NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Caught the Sun “Smiling”"

  1. No, it actually looks like a baby elephant’s face 😀

  2. Sta-Puft marshmallows, anyone?

  3. doctor mehrdad kesiri1389 | February 8, 2024 at 12:12 pm | Reply

    dr mehrdad kesiri | December 23, 2023 at 4:29 am | Reply

    Hello to the great NASA scientists in America, all the moons of Jupiter had already become moons of Jupiter, these moons were arm planets orbiting the stars of the two large arms of the galaxy.They were in orbit during the interstellar period, before they came to Jupiter, Jupiter’s moons were system bodies.The Sun, Jupiter and Saturn pulled thousands of stars from the great arms of the galaxy, and hydrogen gas in the planets Neptune, Uranus, Saturn.And Jupiter was from the collision of stars.The stars that came to the sun were a hundred times smaller than the sun, of course, their size is not their mass, but the mass of the stars is tens of thousands of times smaller than the sun, some of the planets that came tothe sun with the stars of the arm of the galaxy collided with the sun and caused two thousand meters of soil fall on the ground.The earth and human life on the earth were destroyed, but before they were destroyed, those humans drew and shaped the continents and seas of the earth in the form of terrestrial creatures.The humans who lived on the earth before us had stronger telescopes than our age.They had reached the stars that collided with Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.Humans knew that life on earth would be destroyed by meteorites that were broken up from planets that collided with the sun.It was destroyed.If you look at the streams of Indonesia and the Philippines and the streams of northern Australia, you will realize that dinosaurs are tearing each other apart.They formed the islands of South Asia in the shape of dinosaurs.They were civilized, they helped by removing the bones of the human head, so that when the soul of a dead person wants to come out, all the memory tissue of the soul that is in the brain of the head comes out completely.He became the Lord and in this way, as we said, the Lords of the Earth, he was brought up by humans.In Persian, the word “nurturing” is connected to the word Lord, but when I translate the word “Lord” into Latin, everything will be ruined, and the right of the content that I wanted to convey to you in America will be fulfilled.It’s not possible, unfortunately, but you should know that I understood something from the knowledge of the Lords of the Earth that I don’t think any human being has achieved these secrets, because Khayyam has an interesting poem about these secrets.Khayyam, the great poet and philosopher of Iran, says the secrets of the world.You don’t know, neither do I, this word is a riddle, neither you know nor I
    But I know, but Khayyam who said neither you know nor I said that because there was no telescope at the time of Khayyam and that Khayyam, the servant of God, did not know how the stars in the sky above were kept in the sky,but I, who now know the secrets of eternity, Khayyam had said that neither you nor Khayyam know the secrets of eternity, this saying and the poetry and knowledge of Khayyam Nishabori belonged to about a thousand years ago.It is obvious that poor Khayyam did not understand everything he thought about the world at that time.Khayyam also has another poem and Khayyam says I thought for seventy-two years, and I finally realized that I did not understand the secrets of eternity, both you, the American, and Mehrdad, the owner of the time, this riddle, you arealso the God of Mehrdad and Mehrdad himself, hour by hour in Tehran 359 PM

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