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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured image shows a solar flare in the extreme ultraviolet light portion of the spectrum colourised in red and yellow.
An international team of mathematicians and scientists reported on May 22 that the Sun’s magnetic field originates much closer to the surface than previously thought
Solar Dynamics Observatory
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a NASA mission which has been observing the Sun since 2010.
Launched on 11 February 2010, the observatory is part of the Living With a Star (LWS) program
The goal of the SDO is to understand the influence of the Sun on the Earth and near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously.
SDO has been investigating how the Sun's magnetic field is generated and structured, how this stored magnetic energy is converted and released into the heliosphere and geospace in the form of solar wind, energetic particles, and variations in the solar irradiance
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