Images From Three Telescopes Merged Into One Spectacular Picture of the Sun By Nancy_A
You’ve probably never seen our Sun look like this before. This bizarre image of old Sol is made from data produced by three different space telescopes, each observing the Sun at a different wavelength.
The spacecraft that teamed up for this image are NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array which sees in high-energy X-rays; the X-ray Telescope on Japan’s Hinode mission which observes in lower-energy X-rays; and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which can observe the Sun in multiple wavelengths but this particular view is in the ultraviolet.
The composite image speaks to the longevity of these three missions. Hinode launched in 2006; it was supposed to be just a three-year mission but it is still operating. SDO launched in 2010 and is still going strong, capturing as much as 1.4 terabytes of data every day! NuSTAR launched in 2012 and its primary mission is not looking at the Sun, but instead focusing on light in the high energy X-rays in our Universe.
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