IRIS Movie of the Day
At least once a week a movie of the Sun taken by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is posted by one of the scientists operating the instrument.
Erupting flare
Credit: IRIS, LMSAL/NASA, Tiago Pereira
On November 9, 2026, IRIS observed a powerful explosion on the Sun, a solar flare. This eruption, seen towards the end of the movie, illustrates the interplay between rotation, material being ejected, and heating.