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Filaments and Vortices
The Sun sported a very long filament that stretched out over 500,000 miles (800,000 km) and was visible for several...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory came across an oddity this week that the spacecraft has rarely observed before: a...
NASA image captured December 6, 2010 To view a video of this event go here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5258354738 A...
A filament (which at one point had an eerie similarity to a snake) broke away from the sun and out into space (Nov....
A filament (which at one point had an eerie similarity to a snake) broke away from the sun and out into space (Nov....
ESA Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The...
A dark line snaked across the lower half of the sun on Feb.10, 2015, as seen in this image from NASA's Solar...
A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a...
A dark, elongated filament rose up and broke to the lower left and out from the sun seen by NASA Solar Dynamics...
The two most noteworthy features on the sun this week were a pair of elongated filaments (Sept. 8, 2016). The...
A bright solar prominence rose up from the Sun and twisted around in about a six-hour period (Apr. 21, 2015). While...
A bright solar prominence rose up from the Sun and twisted around in about a six-hour period (Apr. 21, 2015). While...
Full disk view of a filament launch in the SDO AIA 304 band. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SVS/SDO To read more about this...
New images of huge filamentary structures of gas and dust from ESA's Herschel space observatory reveal how matter is...
In this image the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope takes a close look at the spiral galaxy NGC 4217, located 60...
A pair of giant filaments on the face of the sun have formed what appears to be an enormous arrow. If straightened...
On September 30, 2014, multiple NASA observatories watched what appeared to be the beginnings of a solar eruption. A...
Resembling the hair in Botticelli famous portrait of the birth of Venus, an image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope...
This image from the Herschel Observatory, a European Space Agency mission, reveals some of the coldest and darkest...
NASA Terra spacecraft captured this image of the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on May 7, 2010. The...
Dense filaments of gas in the IC5146 interstellar cloud can be seen clearly in this image taken in infrared light by...
Resembling sparks from a fireworks display, this image taken by a JPL camera onboard NASA Hubble Space Telescope...
Sparked by a medium-sized (C-class) flare, a long, magnetic filament burst out from the Sun, producing one of the...