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.
Decay phase of an M1.5 flare
Credit: IRIS, LMSAL/NASA, Chunming Zhu
An M1.5 flare was observed in an active region AR 12965 beginning at 2022/03/15 22:39 UT. Here is a high-cadence observation from IRIS during the decay phase of this flare, with the slit crossing the western part of the flaring loops even the ribbons. Co-aligned movie from SDO/AIA can be found here
https://iris.aws.lmsal.com/data/level2/2022/03/16/20220316_000922_4204700135/wwwaia/aia_l2_20220316_000922_4204700135_94_20220315_235923_m.mp4.