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Solar Vector Magnetograph is used to predict solar flares, and other activities associated with sun spots. This...
On March 29, 2014 the sun released an X-class flare. It was observed by NASA's Interface Region Imaging...
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 3:01 p.m. EDT on Oct. 2, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics...
SDO AIA image of the X3.1 flare in 131 angstrom light from 21:43 UT on October 24, 2014. Credit:NASA/SDO More info:...
Documentation and PR photographs of Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar Flares (GRIPS) test hardware at Plum...
Documentation and PR photographs of Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar Flares (GRIPS) test hardware at Plum...
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 2:23 EDT on June 22, 2015. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory,...
A powerful active region just rotating into view produced two X-class flares (the strongest category) about an hour...
This Skylab-4 mission onboard photograph shows Astronaut Ed Gibson at the complex control and display console for...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 12:22 p.m. EDT on March 11, 2015. NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:48 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 12:22 p.m. EDT on March 11, 2015. NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
August 1972, as NASA scientist Ian Richardson remembers it, was hot. In Surrey, England, where he grew up, the...
NASA image release August 6, 2010 On August 1, 2010, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a...
On Oct. 18, 2014, a sunspot rotated over the left side of the sun, and soon grew to be the largest active region...
Final prelaunch preparations are made at Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, for liftoff of the Boeing...
The March 29, 2014, X-class flare appears as a bright light on the upper right in this image from SDO, showing light...
Workers make final checks as the second part of the bi-sector payload fairing for the Advanced Composition Explorer...
Workers in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2 (SAEF-2) begin prelaunch processing of the Advanced...
Prelaunch processing begins on the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft in the Spacecraft Assembly and...
This combined image shows the March 29, 2014, X-class flare as seen through the eyes of different observatories. SDO...
S74-23458 (19 Dec. 1973) --- This photograph of the sun, taken on Dec. 19, 1973, during the third and final manned...
Solar Flare Extremely energetic objects permeate the universe. But close to home, the sun produces its own dazzling...
Over a six-hour period on April 21, 2015, NASA's Solar Dyanmics Observatory (SDO) observed a wing-like prominence...