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The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:48 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics...
ISS013-E-05884 (11 April 2006) --- A setting sun and the thin blue airglow line at Earth’s horizon was...
iss072e311451 (Dec. 3, 2024) --- The Sun's glint beams off one of the many rivers that snake throughout South...
iss073e0032281 (May 15, 2025) --- The sun's glint beams off the Strait of Gibraltar at the top of this photograph as...
Summer 2019, NASA’s Space Environment Testbeds, or SET, will launch on its mission to study how to better protect...
On Sept. 13, 2015, as NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, kept up its constant watch on the sun, its view was...
The sun is seen setting behind NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher on...
The sun is seen setting behind NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher on...
This artist image depicts a faraway solar system like our own except for one big difference. Planets and asteroids...
On May 13, 2013, the sun emitted an X2.8-class flare, peaking at 12:05 p.m. EDT. This is the the strongest X-class...
The European Space Agency's Venus Express mission saw something it could not explain. It appeared that there were...
Betsy Congdon of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab is the Lead Thermal Engineer on the heat shield that NASA's Solar...
In December 2004, NASA and the European Space Agency's SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, celebrated nine...
Solar material repeatedly bursts from the sun in this close-up captured on July 9-10, 2016, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
Solar material twists above the sun’s surface in this close-up captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on June...
The sun erupted with one of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle on March 6, 2012 at 7PM ET. ?This flare was...
Since February 2011, the two spacecraft of NASA's STEREO mission have been providing scientists with unprecedented...
Our Cold War history is now offering scientists a chance to better understand the complex space system that...
A giant arch of plasma rose up out of the Sun and then stretched itself until it had reached back to a point behind...
Dr. Merav Opher talks about the heliopause, the distant region where the solar wind collides with the interstellar...
A relatively small active region erupted twice in 18 hours (Mar. 2, 2018). After each burst, one can see the...
Dr. Merav Opher talks about the heliopause, the distant region where the solar wind collides with the interstellar...
The Sun already featured one good-sized coronal hole, when another larger coronal hole began to emerge and intensify...
Dr. Merav Opher talks about the heliopause, the distant region where the solar wind collides with the interstellar...