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IBIS can focus in on different wavelengths of light, and so reveal different layers at different heights in the...
Scientists presented the first images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory [SDO] during a special "first...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has...
As NASA prepares to send astronauts and spacecraft long distances through space, scientists are keeping an eye on...
NASA image caputred November 6, 2010 To see a really cool video of this event go here:...
A solar magnetic active region containing the largest sunspot group of the last 10 years unleashed a large (X1.2)...
An active region just about squarely facing Earth erupted with an X 1.6 flare (largest class) as well as a coronal...
This 1973 chart details Skylab's Ultraviolet (UV) Spectrograph, an Apollo Telescope Mount instrument. Its telescope,...
Some of the prominences that float like lazy clouds above the solar surface suddenly erupt and break away from the...
iss014e14541 (2/22/2007) --- A view of the BTN-ME experiment, also called BTN-Neutron experiment, attached to the...
Sparked by a medium-sized (C-class) flare, a long, magnetic filament burst out from the Sun, producing one of the...
This 1970 photograph shows the Skylab's Ultraviolet (UV) Spectrograph, an Apollo Telescope Mount instrument. Its...
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The Orbital Stargazer L-1011 aircraft takes off from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., with the HESSI...
A solar flare associated with the coronal mass ejection seen in this image generated a flurry of fast-moving solar...
For 12 days in January 2016, a football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it floated 24 miles...
This is a photograph of the free-flying Solar Maximum Mission Satellite (SMMS), or Solar Max, as seen by the...
Four different instruments on SOHO show a large CME on Nov. 6, 1997. The sun is at the center, with three...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 18,...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has...
In addition to the constant emission of warmth and light, our sun sends out occasional bursts of solar radiation...
An eruption from the surface of the sun is conspicuous in the lower left portion of this July 6, 2015, image from...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., the two STEREO spacecraft are being...
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on Dec. 4, 2014, an M6.1-class, seen as the flash of light in the lower...