The Sun Now

Flatworld

About this app

View images of the sun published by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Images are updated about every 15 minutes.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
the app shows the images from NASA SDO website.
If the website is malfunctioning the app won't be able to download the images and we can't do anything about that. Usually the issues are fixed in a few hours/days.
Before leaving a negative review please check the website with your browser (the url is available in the about page).
We appreciate your patience.

Features:
Zoom and pan
Set as wallpaper
Image descriptions taken from the SDO website
Browse historical data
Integration with Muzei Live Wallpaper (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.muzei)
Solar winds basic data

All images and descriptions are courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Solar winds data by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

Source code available under the Apache License 2.0 at:
https://github.com/marcopar/SDOViewer

Ratings and reviews

“The SDO web server has had a hardware failure with its data storage, so some features and data are temporarily unavailable. The team is working to restore access as soon as possible. Please refer to the Data Access Page to find alternate sources of SDO data.” Update 4/2/26: back up now. These outages are not the fault of the app developer. For 16 years of operation, it is not unusual for equipment to have issues in space and on the ground. Thanks for an excellent app.

Great summary of visual data from SDO. It even has the AIA 4500 which is no longer displayed on the official website of the mission because of the pinhole damage. That is good, I would not remove it. There is one small error in the Solar wind part - it should be km/s (kilometres per second), not Km/s (kelvinmetres per second). For future development, I suggest including latest videos for each band, which are available on SDO website.

While good, it's missing a couple features it *should* have: OK, you can use an image to set your device's wallpaper, but why it has to be BOTH wallpaper AND lockscreen?? Why can't we decide to have 1, OR other, be current Sun, & other being our favorite place on Earth?? -- Why can't it sleep 6h and auto-update that wallpaper or lockscreen, in background? -- why so many confirmations for wallpaper? -- Why can't it add sides, so we see WHOLE Sun, instead of Android's auto-trim'd version?

What’s new

Minor fixes