A telescope that only filters ultraviolet light is helping NASA to take pictures of the Sun, which will enable scientists to predict solar forecasts and monitor the solar behavior. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was launched by NASA in 2010 so as to analyze the Sun's magnetic field. Getting a deeper insight into its characteristics has helped scientists more accurately anticipate when and why space storms occur.

The space agency's mission has been a great success since its launch for both getting insight into the sun's magnetic field and having an astonishing display of the sun's appearance.

The telescope is well capable of filtering light in the ultraviolet length, said Dean Pesnell, a SDO project scientist. He added that a sensor exists in most digital cameras at a location where the picture is taken. The sensor is called as CCD.

It is not possible for human beings to detect light in short UV wavelengths, which is why colors are made up in the photographs. NASA scientists have picked arbitrary, coded colors and without SDO it would have not been possible to spot these wavelengths.

NASA is capturing photographs at an unprecedented rate and monitoring activities of the Sun round the clock. NASA's long term goal is to figure out where the magnetic field of the sun originates.

Also, the stint is aimed at understanding how the field gets ejected and destroyed in order to figure out the origin of space weather. This holds significant importance because satellite drag can be increased because of space weather, which could also fling the satellite out of its orbit. And this could cause severe damages to expensive piece of hardware, dysfunction GPS navigation satellites and affect the Earth's essential power grid.

"This is the most comprehensive data set ever collected by NASA's Heliophysics Systems Observatory", said Jonathan Cirtain, Hinode project scientist NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.