WATCH: The sun through the many eyes of the Solar Dynamics Observatory

26 April 2016 - 14:00 By Times LIVE
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Nasa has released a video explaining how much more they can see when they look at the sun using imagers such as the Solar Dynamics Observatory to observe the different wavelengths of ultraviolet light.

To illustrate this Nasa put together a video showing different wavelengths in pie slices, so it is easier to see the way solar plasma behaves.

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