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OHO captured this image of a CME from the side – but the structure looks much different from the classic light bulb...
This close-up from a video clip taken May 30-June 1, 2018 shows a large active region in extreme ultraviolet light...
The lone active region visible on the sun put on a fine display with its tangled magnetic field lines swaying and...
As a pair of active regions began to rotate into view, their towering magnetic field lines above them bloomed into a...
The Sun's rotation brought a new active region into view, revealing the dynamic arches and twisting streams of its...
This three-dimensional illustration shows how the rotating space around a black hole twists up the magnetic field in...
Magnetic arcs of plasma that spiraled above two active regions held their shape fairly well over 18 hours (Jan....
A smallish solar filament looks like it collapsed into the sun and set off a minor eruption that hurled plasma into...
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, recently mapped the boundaries of the solar system’s tail, called...
This is a photograph of giant twisters and star wisps in the Lagoon Nebula. This superb Hubble Space Telescope (HST)...
When an active region rotated over to the edge of the sun, it presented us with a nice profile view of its elongated...
This graphic shows the computer simulation of a black hole from start to finish. Plasma is falling slowly toward the...
A bright solar flare is captured by the EIT 195Å instrument on 1998 May 2. A solar flare (a sudden, rapid, and...
Two rivers of hot gas are siphoned onto the surface of a neutron star (the collapsed remains of a dead star) in this...
ISS014-E-05615 (14 Oct. 2006) --- Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina is featured in this image...
NASA image acquired May 1, 2010. As an active region rotated into view, it blew out three relatively small eruptions...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has...
Lava formations The science and journalism teams make their way across the ropey, twisted, broken crust of the 1978...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 18,...
ISS025-E-005504 (30 Sept. 2010) --- Syr Dar’ya River floodplain in Kazakhstan, central Asia is featured in this...
Far beyond the stars in the constellation of Leo (The Lion) is irregular galaxy IC 559. IC 559 is not your everyday...
While it often seems unvarying from our viewpoint on Earth, the sun is constantly changing. Material courses through...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has...