Thread: Amazing pictures from NASA!

This is not about the Shuttle program...but an amazing new way to view the sun! You won't believe the pictures!

Here are the first few paragraphs to whet your appetite to go to the site.

April 21, 2010: Warning, the images you are about to see could take your breath away.
At a press conference today in Washington DC, researchers unveiled "First Light" images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a space telescope designed to study the sun.

"SDO is working beautifully," reports project scientist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "This is even better than we could have dreamed."

Launched on February 11th from Cape Canaveral, the observatory has spent the past two months moving into a geosynchronous orbit and activating its instruments. As soon as SDO's telescope doors opened, the spacecraft began beaming back scenes so beautiful and puzzlingly complex that even seasoned observers were stunned.

For instance, here is one of the first things SDO saw:

Now--click on the link!
First Light for the Solar Dynamics Observatory - NASA Science

WOW

Wow, Indeed!

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