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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...
Giant, bright coronal loops trace out the magnetic field lines above an active region from June 4-6, 2018. The...
Tom Woods, (second from right), principal investigator, Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment instrument,...
In just about seven hours, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft saw the moon transit the Sun two times...
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...
NASA Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory STEREO satellites have provided the first three-dimensional images of...
The Sun erupted with an X8 solar flare, one of the largest of the current solar cycle (Sept. 10, 2017). Its source...
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...
Our sun is ever-changing, and the Solar Dynamics Observatory has a front-row seat. On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory came across an oddity this week that the spacecraft has rarely observed before: a...
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...
On Jan. 20, 2017, NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a small area of the sun highlighted three active region....
On April 17, 2016, an active region on the sun’s right side released a mid-level solar flare, captured here by...
This week the sun was hitting its lowest level of solar activity since 2011 (Nov. 14-18, 2016) as it gradually...
The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is launched atop an ATLAS-IIAS expendable launch vehicle. Liftoff from...
On Jan 30, 2014, beginning at 8:31 a.m EST, the moon moved between NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, and...
February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly...
On April 2, 2014, the sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 10:05 a.m. EDT, and NASA's Solar Dynamics...
Alan Title, second from left, principal investigator, Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument, Lockheed Martin Solar...