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Swedish Solar Telescope: Solar Closeups

Close-up of Active Region 12593 through the 400 nm filter of the Swedish Solar Telescope. SDO/HMI provides the background image.
Close-up of Active Region 12593 through the 400 nm filter of the Swedish Solar Telescope.
Credit: Swedish Solar Telescope
Levels
  • Advanced (9-12+)
Material Type
  • Animation/Visualization
Heliophysics Big Ideas
  • Big Idea 3.1 – The Sun is made of churning plasma…
NGSS
  • PS1 - Matter and its Interactions
Heliophysics Topics
  • Plasma
  • Sunspot
  • Energy
Material Cost per Learner Free
Language English

This imagery from the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope (SST) at La Palma, Spain is part of a series of multi-wavelength observations of a solar active region. The goal of the observations was to better understand the methods by which non-thermal energy is injected into the solar chromosphere by mechanisms such as emerging magnetic fields in sunspots.

Learn more about the images at NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.