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Illustration of a CME particle cloud blasted from the sun impacting Earth and creating aurora (in actual photo of...
ISS006-E-18372 (January 2003) --- The Aurora Borealis or “northern lights” and the Manicouagan Impact...
ISS023-E-058455 (29 May 2010) --- Aurora Australis is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew...
The most distinctive feature on the Sun this week was a good-sized coronal hole at a slanted angle nearly centered...
Large impacts produce uplifted central structures, either peaks, or pits, or an uplifted peak with a central pit....
Animation of solar wind impacting the magnetosphere and creating aurora. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SOHO/ESA Sound: Juan...
These mosaics of Jupiter's night side show the Jovian aurora at approximately 45 minute intervals as the auroral...
Our sun is ever-changing, and the Solar Dynamics Observatory has a front-row seat. On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched...
SL3-88-222 (18 Sept. 1973) --- The metropolitan area of Chicago is encompassed in this Skylab 3 Earth Resources...
A test rocket is launched the night of Feb. 17 from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. Test rockets are...
STS070-386-027 (13-22 JULY 1995) --- High-speed film provided this close-up view of the Space Shuttle Discovery’s...
This look at the complex surface of Jupiter's moon Ganymede came from NASA's Juno mission during a close pass by the...
The Polar Night Nitric Oxide or PolarNOx experiment from Virginia Tech is launched aboard a NASA Black Brant IX...
NASA image release August 6, 2010 On August 1, 2010, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a...
The sun erupted with one of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle on March 6, 2012 at 7PM ET. ?This flare was...
Ep392_Ask An Astronaut On Our Anniversary Joseph Zakrzewski (Host) Houston. We have a podcast. Welcome to the...
Ep396_The Art of Astronaut Photography Joseph Zakrzewski Houston, We Have a Podcast. Welcome to the official podcast...
Dane Turner Houston, we have a podcast! Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, Episode...