NASA's IRIS and SDO See a Section of the Sun (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's IRIS and SDO See a Section of the Sun

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These two images show a section of the sun as seen by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, on the right and NASA's SDO on the left. The IRIS image provides scientists with unprecedented detail of the lowest parts of the sun's atmosphere, known as the interface region.

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NASA/SDO/IRIS

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