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The seasons of the Sun 🌿☀️🍂❄️
Just as Earth goes through seasonal changes, our Sun moves from times of frequent explosive eruptions to calm stretches of relative quiescence. It’s all part of the roughly 11-year alternation in magnetic activity known as the solar cycle.
Right now we’re in the period known as solar maximum — and solar activity is at its peak! Flares, coronal mass ejections, and the northern and southern lights are most readily observed during this time. But eventually, our closest star will return to its slumber… only to reawaken years later.
NASA’s Illuminate: Out-of-this-world images shining light on our Sun and solar system.
#NASAsIlluminate #HelioBigYear #NASA #SDO #SolarMax #Space #Sun
Music Credit: "Kinetic Worlds" by Jay Price [PRS] by Universal Production Music
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Producer: Joy Ng (NIA/eMITS)
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The seasons of the Sun 🌿☀️🍂❄️
Just as Earth goes through seasonal changes, our Sun moves from times of frequent explosive eruptions to calm stretches of relative quiescence. It’s all part of the roughly 11-year alternation in magnetic activity known as the solar cycle.
Right now we’re in the period known as solar maximum — and solar activity is at its peak! Flares, coronal mass ejections, and the northern and southern lights are most readily observed during this time. But eventually, our closest star will return to its slumber… only to reawaken years later.
NASA’s Illuminate: Out-of-this-world images shining light on our Sun and solar system.
#NASAsIlluminate #HelioBigYear #NASA #SDO #SolarMax #Space #Sun
Music Credit: "Kinetic Worlds" by Jay Price [PRS] by Universal Production Music
Video Credit: NASA
Producer: Joy Ng (NIA/eMITS)
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14706 While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14706
For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/.
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASAGoddard
Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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· X: twitter.com/NASAGoddard
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· Flickr: flickr.com/photos/gsfc
