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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the control room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., a team of...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., Boeing spacecraft fueling...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., Boeing spacecraft fueling...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., spacecraft fueling...
Flaring, active regions of our sun are highlighted in this image combining observations from several telescopes....
An instrument on our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured its 100 millionth image of the sun. The instrument is...
The March 29, 2014, X-class flare appears as a bright light on the upper right in this image from SDO, showing light...
NASA image release August 6, 2010 On August 1, 2010, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a...
On Dec. 31, 2016, official clocks around the world will add a leap second just before midnight Coordinated Universal...
Image released: April 22, 2013 In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010,...
Caption: These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on Feb. 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in...
Caption: These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on Feb. 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured these images of a solar flare on Oct. 2, 2014. The solar flare is the...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) zoomed in almost to its maximum level to watch tight, bright loops and much...
The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3, 2017. The first peaked at 4:02 a.m. EDT on April 2,...
Extreme ultraviolet light streams out of an X-class solar flare as seen in this image captured on March 29, 2014, by...
Extreme ultraviolet light streams out of an X-class solar flare as seen in this image captured on March 29, 2014, by...
Active region AR 12192 on the sun erupted with a strong flare on Oct. 24, 2014, as seen in the bright light of this...
Comet ISON comes in from the bottom right and moves out toward the upper right, growing more faint, in this...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 18,...
Twice a year, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has an eclipse season — a weeks-long period in which Earth...
On Nov. 22, 2014 from 5:29 to 6:04 p.m. EST., the moon partially obscured the view of the sun from NASA's Solar...
This combined image shows the March 29, 2014, X-class flare as seen through the eyes of different observatories. SDO...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 12:22 p.m. EDT on March 11, 2015. NASA’s Solar Dynamics...