The Sun now
Image from the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT)
The Sun's hot atmosphere today
See the bright twisted clouds of hot gas, revealing storminess, and the
dark, calm regions called coronal holes. These images, obtained with
invisible ultraviolet light, give the scientists their routine weather
maps of the Sun. Occasionally a solar flare appears, as a small,
intensely bright flash. Different colours denote various ultraviolet
wavelengths, each emanating from gas at a particular temperature -
orange, 80 000 degrees, blue 1 000 000 degrees,
green 1 500 000 degrees and yellow 2 500 000 degrees.
Latest images from other SOHO instruments
Last update: 3 May 2011
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More about...
| | • | SOHO overview (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/120373_index_0_m.html) | |
Related articles
| | • | Safety tips for observing the Sun (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMB6P7O0MD_index_0.html) | | | • | How the Sun affects us on Earth (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEML7BS1VED_foryou_0.html) | | | • | What is a SOHO/EIT CCD ‘bakeout’? (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMN6TVLWFE_index_0.html) | |
In depth
| | • | ESA's SOHO science website (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/120373_index_0_m.html) | |
Related links
| | • | SOHO homepage (http://sohowww.estec.esa.nl/) | | | • | Hot shots from SOHO (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/) | | | • | Best of SOHO images (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/top10/) | | | • | SOHO and space weather (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/spaceweather) | | | • | What is a 'telemetry keyhole'? (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2004_01_04/) | |
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