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On September 30, 2014, multiple NASA observatories watched what appeared to be the beginnings of a solar eruption. A...
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) celebrates its 5th anniversary since it launched on February 11, 2010. This...
On April 2, 2014, the sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 10:05 a.m. EDT, and NASA's Solar Dynamics...
Around 13 times per century, Mercury passes between Earth and the sun in a rare astronomical event known as a...
Using data from three different satellites, scientists have developed new models that recreate, in 3-D, CMEs and...
The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO...
On July 24, 2016, NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, captured a mid-level solar flare: a sudden...
Watching a particularly beautiful movie of the sun helps show how the lines between science and art can sometimes...
Solar material repeatedly bursts from the sun in this close-up captured on July 9-10, 2016, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:24 p.m. EST on Dec. 19, 2014. NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
Early in the morning of Sept. 1, 2016, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, caught both the Earth and moon...
Solar material twists above the sun’s surface in this close-up captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on June...
This movie from NASA’s SDO shows a solar flare — the bright light on the left side of the sun — on July 8, 2014. An...
On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught this image of an eruption on the side of the sun over June 18, 2015. The...
Bill Nye and Dr. Jim Garvin at the Science on a Sphere during a tour of Goddard Space Flight Center on September 8,...
Bill Nye at the building 29 during a tour of Goddard Space Flight Center on September 8, 2011 Credit: NASA/GSFC/Bill...
Bill Nye checks out the progress of the James Webb Space Telescope at the building 29 clean room during a tour of...
New Mexico -- Dr. Robert Goddard's rocket is being setup for the test that took place on October 29, 1935. It was a...
Launch and mission managers for NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) participate in a prelaunch mission...
NASA satellite image showing the fires in Bastrop County Texas on September 5, 2011 at 17:05 UTC. Credit:...
In the Kennedy Space Center’s Operations Support Building II, Dr. Eugene Parker, a pioneer in heliophysics and S....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Barbara Giles, director of NASA's Science Mission...
Dr. Robert Goddard with his apparatus for solar energy study at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. (1932-1934). Dr....