Tag Archive for 'Hinode'

Antolin et al spotted nanojets in the solar corona. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Scientific Visualization Studio.

IRIS Captures First-Ever Clear Images of Nanojets in Solar Corona

Sep 22, 2020 by News Staff

The solar corona, the outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere, is shaped and mysteriously heated to millions of degrees by the magnetic field of our star....

This picture shows four views of the 10 December 2013 solar flare from SDO, STEREO, and Hinode. The current sheet is a long, thin structure, especially visible in the views on the left. Image credit: NASA / JAXA / SDO / STEREO / Hinode / Zhu et al.

Three Solar Observatories Hone in on Powerful Solar Flare

Apr 20, 2016 by News Staff

During a December 2013 solar flare, three solar-watching satellites — NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the agency’s Solar and Terrestrial...

High-energy X-rays from NuSTAR are shown in blue; low-energy X-rays from Hinode are green; and extreme UV light from SDO is yellow and red. All three telescopes captured their solar images around the same time on April 29, 2015. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / GSFC / JAXA.

Space Observatories See Active Sun in UV Light and X-Rays

Jul 8, 2015 by News Staff

Active regions of the Sun are highlighted in this composite image combining observations from a fleet of sun-monitoring satellites: NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear...