IRIS Movie of the Day
At least once a week a movie of the Sun taken by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is posted by one of the scientists operating the instrument.
Coordination with Parker Solar Probe (PSP)
Credit: IRIS, LMSAL/NASA, Lucas Guliano (SAO)
Parker Solar Probe (PSP) was launched with the goal of observing the processes that characterize the Sun's corona and solar wind by plunging into the solar atmosphere. During the fourth perihelion on January 29th, 2020, Parker Solar Probe once again broke two of its own records by being the human-made object to travel faster and closer to the sun than anything that has come before it. While PSP is a remarkable feat of science and engineering, it is through collaboration with other telescopes/observatories that the true scientific potential of the project can be unlocked. During PSP's 4th encounter with the sun, IRIS is consistently collecting solar data in collaboration with PSP and Hinode. Though the above video of a long scan collected during the coordination may not appear exceptionally remarkable on its own, when taken as a small piece of the larger multi-national collaboration, it may help to drastically further our understanding of the Sun.