5.8K views · 185 reactions | 133 days on the sun ☀️ Newly released imagery from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a 133-day time-lapse of solar activity from August to December of last year. The 59-minute video, just a portion of which is shown here, shows the sun’s corona, its outermost atmospheric layer. Learn more: https://on.natgeo.com/3kLSsnM | National Geographic TV | Facebook

🌞 📰 Sun news for January 28, 2024: Quiet Earth and Quiet sun day 🤔 We have hit another solar lull. It is a quiet sun day with just three sunspot regions, two on the west limb (edge) and one on the east limb (edge). Flaring levels and quantities are low and the probability of flaring has decreased. These are certainly not the lowest levels we have seen but this is par for the course, one of the ups and downs of the solar cycle. 😮 Even as the solar cycle has ups and downs of roughly five and a