NASA Goes to the Super Bowl

This image, is a composite of 23 separate images spanning the period of January 11, 2015 to January 21, 2016. It uses the SDO AIA wavelength of 171 angstroms and reveals the zones on the sun where active regions are most common during this part of the solar cycle.

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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/S. Wiessinger

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