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.
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10 Apr 2021
Active Region Jet at High Resolution
Credit: IRIS, LMSAL/NASA, Ryan French
Active regions are incredibly busy parts of the Sun, and small jets in their core can be hard to spot in full-Sun images. In this movie however, we capture the full evolution of an active region jet at high resolution, with 1.7 seconds between each frame.