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An active region that had just rotated into view blasted out a coronal mass ejection, which was immediately followed...
Located north of Olympus Mons and west of Alba Patera, Acheron Fossae provides a record of early tectonic activity...
The lone active region visible on the sun put on a fine display with its tangled magnetic field lines swaying and...
Two active regions with their intense magnetic fields produced towering arches and spiraling coils of solar loops...
NASA Cassini spacecraft captured this view as it neared icy Enceladus for its closest-ever dive past the moon active...
RCW 108 is a region where stars are actively forming within the Milky Way galaxy about 4,000 light years from Earth....
NASA Cassini spacecraft captured this high resolution image of the western hemisphere of Saturn moon Enceladus where...
This still image from an animation from NASA GSFC Solar Dynamics Observatory shows arches of magnetic field lines...
This wind-swept region of Amazonis Planitia, imaged here by NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft, has been so uniformly...
The sun's only visible active region sputtered and spurted and eventually unleashed a small (C-class) flare (Feb. 7,...
Several small sunspots appeared this week, giving NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory a chance to illustrate their...
The magnetic field lines between a pair of active regions formed a beautiful set of swaying arches rising up above...
A prominence rose up above the sun, sent an arch of plasma to link up magnetically with an active region over a...
iss069e030002 (July 7, 2023) --- Mining activities in the northern Chilean region of Antofagasta are pictured from...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 5:40 p.m. EDT on Oct. 24, 2014. The flare erupted from a...
Flaring, active regions of our sun are highlighted in this image combining observations from several telescopes....
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) scientists use their computer models to generate a view of the sun's...
Strands of plasma at the sun edge shifted and twisted back and forth over a 22-hour period, May 2-3, 2017. In this...
This is a striking, oblique view to the south of the Indonesian islands of Java (right), Bali and Lombok (upper...
The monsoon is a seasonal rain and wind pattern that occurs over South Asia (among other places). Through NASA...
Giant, bright coronal loops trace out the magnetic field lines above an active region from June 4-6, 2018. The...
An active region at the sun's edge produced several M5-class (medium sized) flares over a ten-hour period (Apr. 3,...
The Tharsis Montes region on Mars is a major center of volcanic and tectonic activity. The channel in this image...
An active region on the sun — an area of intense and complex magnetic fields — has rotated into view on the sun and...