Yohkoh

The Yohkoh satellite is an observatory for studying X-rays and gamma-rays from the Sun. Launched on August 31 1991, Yohkoh was built in Japan and the sun-observing instruments have contributions from the UK and the US.

From here, you can return to Solar Cinema or Go back to the previous page.

Solar Eclipse seen from Yohkoh
(320 Kb, QuickTime)

Solar flare
(124 Kb, QuickTime)

The sun in different wavelengths
(486 Kb, QuickTime)

Rotating sun
(3.6 Mb, QuickTime)

Rotating sun, full disk
(540 Kb, QuickTime)

Exploding loop (975 Kb, QuickTime)

Spin with the sun (2.9 Mb, QuickTime)


All movies are borrowed from the Yohkoh home page.

From here, you can return to Solar Cinema or Go back to the previous page.