So you missedMercury transiting the Sun last monthand think you were go to have to waitress another three whole years to see the rare astronomical event ? Not at all . NASA ’s Solar Dynamics Laboratory was busy flash the entire thing in 4 K , and it just releasedthreeglorioushighlightreels . Even if you did melodic line into a unrecorded stream , this is an encore you do n’t desire to overlook .
Each of the videos released by NASA ’s Scientific Visualization Studio this hebdomad depicts the same theodolite event — Mercury crossing the Sun on May 9th , 2016 — by combining partial picture taken at 12 second intervals with full phonograph recording images captured every 90 seconds . With three unlike filters , NASA is offer up us a range of 4K - by-4 K see experiences that show three trenchant faces of our mighty Sun : fiery , smoldering , and frown .
This is the belike the good Mercury transit you ’re get going to see without pull up close on a spacecraft , and frankly , better in the signified that you do n’t burn your boldness off watching . Here ’s my favorite of the videos , shoot with SDO’sHelioseismic and Magnetic Imagertelescope :
And here are a few stills . See if you’re able to spot Mercury in each !
As a small aside , it ’s a flake disturbing NASA waited until now to release these fantastically high definition , cautiously edited photos and videos . The pics were taken last month and we pay their salaries in tax clam . As Fox News made exonerated this week , ‘ Murica expect a little adept .
But we ’ll forgive NASA just this one time . you may download the full videos and a range of still imageshere .
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