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Six moments from a restless Sun. A new chapter for ASTRID. ☀️⚡
This film brings together selected solar events from 2026: powerful flares, enormous filaments lifting into space, evolving coronal loops, and dense plasma rising before falling back toward the Sun.
Created from real NASA SDO observations in FITS format, each sequence is replayed beside ASTRID’s new Temporal Contrast view. Comparing observations taken moments apart reveals the changing structures and movement of plasma, another way to explore the extraordinary dynamics of our star.
Different wavelengths. Carefully crafted colours. Smooth transitions. Quiet piano accompanying immense solar activity.
And behind this video, something else is evolving.
ASTRID, the AI-assisted digital observatory, is becoming a family of dedicated applications. First comes Solar Studio.
A workspace for exploring solar observations, combining wavelengths, creating your own palettes and producing detailed images and cinematic videos. Bringing the science, the creative controls and the rendering tools together in one application.
Solar Studio will run on both PC and Mac, with full public availability in 2027.
This video is a glimpse of what we are building, and where ASTRID is heading.
One star. Endless possibilities.
The universe is your workspace.
And to the world I say, peace be upon you.
#ASTRID #SolarStudio #SolarPhysics #SDO #SpaceWeather
This film brings together selected solar events from 2026: powerful flares, enormous filaments lifting into space, evolving coronal loops, and dense plasma rising before falling back toward the Sun.
Created from real NASA SDO observations in FITS format, each sequence is replayed beside ASTRID’s new Temporal Contrast view. Comparing observations taken moments apart reveals the changing structures and movement of plasma, another way to explore the extraordinary dynamics of our star.
Different wavelengths. Carefully crafted colours. Smooth transitions. Quiet piano accompanying immense solar activity.
And behind this video, something else is evolving.
ASTRID, the AI-assisted digital observatory, is becoming a family of dedicated applications. First comes Solar Studio.
A workspace for exploring solar observations, combining wavelengths, creating your own palettes and producing detailed images and cinematic videos. Bringing the science, the creative controls and the rendering tools together in one application.
Solar Studio will run on both PC and Mac, with full public availability in 2027.
This video is a glimpse of what we are building, and where ASTRID is heading.
One star. Endless possibilities.
The universe is your workspace.
And to the world I say, peace be upon you.
#ASTRID #SolarStudio #SolarPhysics #SDO #SpaceWeather
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