Solar Corona Revealed in Super-High-Definition

Hi-C: A Detailed View of the Sun: This 10-second movie includes imagery collected from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument flying on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and Hi-C. Hi-C’s resolution is five times more detailed than the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly flying aboard NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. AIA can see structures on the sun’s surface with clarity of approximately 675 miles and observes the sun in ten