Full Disk Ultraviolet View Of Sun
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Image Credit: NASA/SDO
When we look at the Sun from the surface on the Earth, it typically looks yellow to us because it gives off its most intense radiation in that color of visible light. However, if we observe the Sun in the "other" types of light that it emits, we are exposed to an entirely different looking object. Here we see the Sun in ultraviolet light through a telescope with better resolution than the most sophisticated high-definition television. This telescope, called the Solar Dynamics Observatory, gets these amazing views of our closest star in an orbit high above the Earth's atmosphere. This gives it unfettered access to ten different wavelengths of light being emitted from the Sun.
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