Our sun has turned 360 degrees

Our Sun has committed a dizzying somersault 360 degrees, and it fixed the device for tracking the Sun «Solar Dynamics Observatory» (SDO).

The sun made a somersault.
It can be described as shown above animation, which is created from images observatory «Solar Dynamics Observatory», which receive scientists on Earth. But in fact, everything is easier. With our native luminary nothing had happened, and 360 degrees of rotation made SDO observatory itself.

This maneuver mission engineers produced twice a year, to SDO observatory could make more accurate data, observing 12 wavelengths of the sun. Note that the device sends images back to Earth every 12 seconds, which is about 3 terabytes of data per day.