Editorial
View of the Sun
A new satellite is producing extraordinarily high-quality images of the Sun, revealing what an intense, disturbing thing of beauty it is.
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[T]here has never really been anything like the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Launched in mid-February, it is shipping a torrent of data our way from its orbit above the Sun. ... The quality of these images is extraordinary, 10 times the resolution of high-definition television, according to NASA.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/opinion/27tue4.html
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[T]here has never really been anything like the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Launched in mid-February, it is shipping a torrent of data our way from its orbit above the Sun. ... The quality of these images is extraordinary, 10 times the resolution of high-definition television, according to NASA.
We have seen the surface of the Sun before, but never with this clarity. Every 10 seconds, the satellite photographs the solar disk in eight different wavelengths, and what emerges — even in these earliest images — is both stirring and disorienting. The Sun is the most constant object in our lives, but what we see in these videos is a livid, roiling star, mottled and seething on every wavelength. It is a thing of intense, disturbing beauty.
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