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A small prominence observed in profile arched up and sent streams of plasma curling back into the sun over a 30-hour...
As a pair of active regions began to rotate into view, their towering magnetic field lines above them bloomed into a...
A prominence rose up above the sun, sent an arch of plasma to link up magnetically with an active region over a...
This archival photo shows the system test configuration for Voyager on October 1, 1976. The spacecraft's 10-sided...
Numerous arches of magnetic field lines danced and swayed above a large active region over about a 30-hour period...
The Sun's rotation brought a new active region into view, revealing the dynamic arches and twisting streams of its...
A close-up view of one day in the life of a rather small active region shows the agitation and dynamism of its...
The sun featured just one, rather small active region over the past few days, but it developed rapidly and sported a...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents the Arches Cluster, the densest known star cluster in the Milky...
A prominence at the edge of the sun provided us with a splendid view of solar plasma as it churned and streamed over...
A prominence at the edge of the sun provided us with a splendid view of solar plasma as it churned and streamed over...
Some of the prominences that float like lazy clouds above the solar surface suddenly erupt and break away from the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A videographer with NASA's Kennedy Space Center captures the arch of space shuttle...
A three-year-old chimpanzee, named Ham, in the biopack couch for the MR-2 suborbital test flight. On January 31,...
A three-year-old chimpanzee, named Ham, in the biopack couch for the MR-2 suborbital test flight. On January 31,...
NASA astronaut Megan McArthur points to the shadow of the Gateway Arch on the Mississippi River in St. Louis while...
Several small sunspots appeared this week, giving NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory a chance to illustrate their...
This image sand dunes, boulders, and rocky outcrops of the "South Séítah" region of Mars' Jezero Crater was captured...
Auroras are caused when high-energy electrons pour down from the Earth's magnetosphere and collide with atoms. Red...
The two most noteworthy features on the sun this week were a pair of elongated filaments (Sept. 8, 2016). The...
A long arch of plasma (called a prominence) was pulled this way and that by magnetic forces for a week before it...
A long arch of plasma (called a prominence) was pulled this way and that by magnetic forces for a week before it...
Explanation: In this picture, the Sun's surface is quite dark. A frame from a movie recorded on November 9th by the...
Just in time for the U.S. National Park Service's Centennial celebration on Aug. 25, NASA's Multiangle Imaging...