NASA captures partial solar eclipse from space

by October 21, 2010 2394 Views


While eclipse shots always look interesting, if you have seen one you have pretty much seen them all… until now.

NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) captured these incredible images as their camera was focused on the Sun in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light – when the dark Moon passed in front.

The large arcing solar flare that can be seen on the left of the Sun is 860,000 miles and could be as hot as 20 million degrees Celsius.

[Daily Mail]

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by C. S. Magor - Oct 21, 2010

by C. S. Magor - Oct 21, 2010

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
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  • Partial Solar Eclipse, as Seen From Space | The UberReview
    21 October 2010 at 2:10 am
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