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Over the course of just one day a tiny active region grew to became almost as large as its many-days-old neighbor...
One active region at the edge of the Sun pushed out about ten thrusts of plasma in just over a day long period (July...
This close-up of the Sun from a two-hour period on Aug. 13, 2018 shows a minor eruption of charged particles rising...
An elongated coronal hole rotated across the face of the sun this past week so that it is now streaming solar wind...
A dark coronal hole that was facing towards Earth for several days spewed streams of solar wind in our direction...
A substantial coronal hole rotated across the face of the sun this past week and is again streaming solar wind...
A large coronal hole has been spewing solar wind particles in the general direction of Earth over the past few days...
Two good-sized coronal holes have rotated around to the center of the sun where they will be spewing solar wind...
A smallish solar filament looks like it collapsed into the sun and set off a minor eruption that hurled plasma into...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:48 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics...
April 21, 2012 marks the two-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference,...
Solar material repeatedly bursts from the sun in this close-up captured on July 9-10, 2016, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
A substantial coronal hole rotated into a position where it is facing Earth (Aug. 9-11, 2017). Coronal holes are...
A sheet of plasma blasted out into space from just behind the edge of the sun (July 28, 2017). While some material...
Sparked by a medium-sized (C-class) flare, a long, magnetic filament burst out from the Sun, producing one of the...
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) celebrates its 5th anniversary since it launched on February 11, 2010. This...
A relatively small active region erupted twice in 18 hours (Mar. 2, 2018). After each burst, one can see the...
A series of active regions stretched along the right side of the sun exhibited a wide variety of loops cascading...
The sun featured just one, rather small active region over the past few days, but it developed rapidly and sported a...
Three distinct active regions with towering arches above them rotated into view over a three-day period (Sept....
This side-by-side rendering of the Sun at the same time in two different wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of Earth and the moon transiting the sun together on Sept. 13,...
A large sunspot was the source of a powerful solar flare (an X 9.3) and a coronal mass ejection (Sept. 6, 2017). The...
An active region rotated into view and sputtered with numerous small flares and towering magnetic field lines that...