This movie shows one complete rotation of the Sun, from November 4 through November 30, 2011. The movie consists of over 1,000 frames (single images) taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI).
A lot of sunspots peppered the Sun over a magnetically active, 23-day period (November 4 through November 30, 2011). This period is approximately one complete solar rotation. The solar rotation period is 24.47 days at the Sun's equator and almost 38 days at the Sun's poles.
During this 23-day rotation, most of the sunspots appeared in the Sun's northern hemisphere. The images were taken by SDO's HMI instrument in what we call intensitygrams, which is how the Sun appears in filtered light. The video shows how spots can change over hours and days.
Credit: SDO/HMI
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