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.
High Cadence M Flare with AIA
Credit: IRIS, LMSAL/NASA, Lucas Guliano (SAO)
On January 18th, 2022 IRIS was finally successful in capturing a major flare with an extremely high cadence observing program. The Sun has been shy for the last few months whenever we were running this program; but it finally relented and granted us a high cadence viewing of an M1.5 flare. By synchronizing the IRIS data with the AIA data from the same time period, we can get an highly detailed look at the structure of the region as this flare event unfolds! The full image set runs for over three minutes due to the time resolution granted by the large number of images taken, so the video is sped up from the original form.