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On September 30, 2014, multiple NASA observatories watched what appeared to be the beginnings of a solar eruption. A...
Solar activity and erupting prominences. EIT 304A (Jan. 8-10, 2000) Credit: NASA/GSFC/SOHO/ESA To learn more go to...
A minor solar eruption triggered a crackling, white flash that sent an expanding wave of plasma below it over about...
NASA image release Sept 9, 2010 Just as sunspot 1105 was turning away from Earth on Sept. 8, the active region...
NASA image release Sept 9, 2010 Just as sunspot 1105 was turning away from Earth on Sept. 8, the active region...
Scientists from Durham University in the United Kingdom and NASA now propose that a universal mechanism can explain...
Breaking the grip of the closed magnetic loops that constrain other gases around it, a spray of chromospheric...
Watch a video from this event here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/14118958800/ A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged...
Watch a video from this event here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/14118958800/ A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged...
Watch a video from this event here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/14118958800/ A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged...
Watch a video from this event here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/14118958800/ A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged...
For the first time, scientists have a three-dimensional view of one of the most powerful and mysterious events in...
The Sun erupted with an X8 solar flare, one of the largest of the current solar cycle (Sept. 10, 2017). Its source...
A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014, and NASA's newest solar observatory...
This movie from NASA’s SDO shows a solar flare — the bright light on the left side of the sun — on July 8, 2014. An...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught this image of an eruption on the side of the sun over June 18, 2015. The...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) zoomed in to watch close-up the dynamics of this single active region on the...
The sun emitted three mid-level solar flares on July 22-23, 2016, the strongest peaking at 1:16 am EDT on July 23....
Photograph by Skylab 2 Solar eruption (flare)
On April 17, 2016, an active region on the sun’s right side released a mid-level solar flare, captured here by...
On April 17, 2016, an active region on the sun’s right side released a mid-level solar flare, captured here by...
An eruption from the surface of the sun is conspicuous in the lower left portion of this July 6, 2015, image from...
August 1972, as NASA scientist Ian Richardson remembers it, was hot. In Surrey, England, where he grew up, the...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 5:40 p.m. EDT on Oct. 24, 2014. The flare erupted from a...