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S74-21921 (For release 1974) --- Sun photographed by Apollo Telescope Mount through spectroheliometer at a...
One of two small APV-3 aircraft flown in the joint Ames-Dryden Networked UAV Teaming Experiment flares for landing...
Solar Vector Magnetograph is used to predict solar flares, and other activities associated with sun spots. This...
The X-38, a research vehicle built to help develop technology for an emergency Crew Return Vehicle (CRV), flares for...
A supermassive black hole is depicted in this artist's concept, surrounded by a swirling disk of material falling...
The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO...
NASA image captured Feb. 24, 2011 To see an image showing the size of the prominence in comparison to the size of...
On Oct. 18, 2014, a sunspot rotated over the left side of the sun, and soon grew to be the largest active region...
Sparked by a medium-sized (C-class) flare, a long, magnetic filament burst out from the Sun, producing one of the...
Explanation: In this picture, the Sun's surface is quite dark. A frame from a movie recorded on November 9th by the...
iss067e190005 (7/20/2023) --- A view of BTN-ME Unit in the Zvezda Service Module (SM) aboard the International space...
This chart details Skylab's X-Ray Spectrographic Telescope, an Apollo Telescope Mount facility. It was designed to...
This photograph details Skylab's X-Ray Spectrographic Telescope, an Apollo Telescope Mount facility. It was designed...
This Skylab-4 mission onboard photograph shows Astronaut Ed Gibson at the complex control and display console for...
In late June 2013, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base,...
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Boeing 747SP flares for landing at Edwards AFB after...
S74-23458 (19 Dec. 1973) --- This photograph of the sun, taken on Dec. 19, 1973, during the third and final manned...
On Nov. 11, 2019, while the REXIS instrument was performing detailed science observations of Bennu, it captured...
NASA image release August 6, 2010 On August 1, 2010, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a...
Solar Flare Extremely energetic objects permeate the universe. But close to home, the sun produces its own dazzling...
August 1972, as NASA scientist Ian Richardson remembers it, was hot. In Surrey, England, where he grew up, the...
This artist's concept illustrates how the brightness of outbursting star FU Orionis has been slowly fading since its...
Final prelaunch preparations are made at Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, for liftoff of the Boeing...
During the total solar eclipse, the Sun’s corona, only visible during the total eclipse, is shown as a crown of...