NASA will soon be sharing several breathtaking images of eclipses as seen from space.
Eclipse season for Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is in full effect.
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What is SDO’s eclipse season?
SDO’s eclipse season is a three-week period that occurs twice a year near the equinoxes, Nasa said.
During this period, Earth blocks SDO’s view of the Sun for a short while each day – this season it will happen at 3:30 am ET.
This event allows the SDO to take stunning images of eclipses as seen from space.
“The eclipses are fairly short near the beginning and end of the season but ramp up to 72 minutes in the middle,” the US space agency explained.
Nasa will be sharing their images on SDO’s webpage as soon as the images are snapped and data is collected.
What is the SDO?
The Solar Dynamics Observatory is a Nasa mission that has been observing the Sun since 2010.
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SDO helps astronomers study the Sun in a different way than NuSTAR.
Specifically, SDO monitors the “Sun’s influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere and magnetic field,” Nasa said.
What type of content does SDO capture?
Every eclipse season, the images captured by SDO range from partial to total solar eclipses.
The images are often taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light.
Ultraviolet is a type of light that is typically invisible to our eyes and mostly colorized in purple or red hues.
