The Film Festival room is literally a festival of films, solar films that is.
We have collected many exciting solar movies below. If you have time,
we encourage you to view them
all! If you are not sure your computer can view movies, visit our
Movie Test Page before you get started.
These Yohkoh movie segments show a few of the many solar flares
observed during the Yohkoh mission. Although flares share many
characteristics, you will notice how different each flare appears.
This movie takes you on a journey through the layers of the Sun's
atmosphere. It begins with a white light image of the photosphere, fades into a red light
image which shows the chromosphere and ends with an X-ray
image of the outermost layer, the corona. The images in this movie were all
taken on the same day and demonstrate the connection between features seen
in the different atmospheric layers.
This movie takes you on a close up fly-by of the Sun. Dive into the solar
atmosphere and watch new erupting features rotate into view. Follow an
active region as it makes its journey across the solar disk.
Simultaneous images in X-ray and white light show the correlation between
coronal active regions and
photospheric sunspots, both
locations of intense magnetic concentration.
View the most recent X-ray images of the Sun. These movies are automatically
updated as new data is received in Japan from the satellite. You may be
the FIRST person to see these images!
