NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade.
From its orbit in space around the Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years.
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Key video times
6:20 June 7, 2011-- A massive prominence eruption explodes from the lower right of the Sun.
12:24 June 5, 2012-- The transit of Venus across the face of the Sun. Won’t happen again until 2117.
13:06 July 19, 2012-- A complex loop of magnetic fields and plasma forms and lasts for hours.
13:50 Aug. 31, 2012-- The most iconic eruption of this solar cycle bursts from the lower left of the Sun.
20:25 Sept. 29, 2013-- A prominence eruption forms a long 'canyon’ that is then covered with loops of plasma.
26:39 Oct. 8, 2014-- Active regions on the Sun resemble a jack o’ lantern just in time for Halloween.
36:18 May 9, 2016-- Mercury transits across the face of the Sun. Smaller and more distant than Venus it is hard to spot.
43:20 July 5, 2017-- A large sunspot group spends two weeks crossing the face of the Sun.
44:20 Sept. 6, 2017-- The most powerful sequence of flares during this solar cycle crackle for several days, peaking at X9.3.
57:38 Nov. 11, 2019-- Mercury transits the Sun once more for SDO. The next transit won’t be until 2032.
