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This still image from an animation from NASA GSFC Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a single plume of plasma, many...
Philip H. Scherrer (left) principal investigator, Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager instrument, Stanford University...
A dark, elongated filament rose up and broke to the lower left and out from the sun seen by NASA Solar Dynamics...
A mass of plasma gathered itself into a twisting mass, spun around for a bit, then rose up and broke apart over a...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observes two relatively small prominences above the Sun's surface twisted...
This still image from an animation from NASA GSFC Solar Dynamics Observatory shows magnetically charged particles...
Tom Woods, (second from right), principal investigator, Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment instrument,...
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory sees the sun has been virtually spotless, as in no sunspots, a 11-day spotless...
Several times a day for a few days the Earth completely blocked the Sun for about an hour due to NASA's Solar...
This image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a broad coronal hole was the dominant feature this week on...
On Jan. 20, 2017, NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a small area of the sun highlighted three active region....
Several small sunspots appeared this week, giving NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory a chance to illustrate their...
Scientists involved in NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission attend a press conference to discuss recent...
Scientists involved in NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission attend a press conference to discuss recent...
Madhulika Guhathakurta, far right, SDO Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, speaks during a...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) saw both the Moon (upper right) and the Earth (upper left) partially block...
Strands of plasma at the sun edge shifted and twisted back and forth over a 22-hour period, May 2-3, 2017. In this...
In just about seven hours, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft saw the moon transit the Sun two times...
Giant, bright coronal loops trace out the magnetic field lines above an active region from June 4-6, 2018. The...
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,...
An eruption from the surface of the sun is conspicuous in the lower left portion of this July 6, 2015, image from...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory ran together three sequences of the sun taken in three different extreme...
On Sept. 13, 2015, as NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, kept up its constant watch on the sun, its view was...
Alan Title, second from left, principal investigator, Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument, Lockheed Martin Solar...