Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. SDO will send 1.5 terabytes of data back to Earth …
Around 13 times per century, Mercury passes between Earth and the sun in a rare astronomical event known as a planetary transit. The 2016 Mercury transit occurred on May 9, …
Solar scientists have long known that at the heart of the great explosions of solar material that shoot off the sun — known as coronal mass ejections or CMEs â …
This video shows the Sept. 10, 2017, X8.2-class solar flare as observed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The video shows a blend of light from the 171- and 304-angstrom wavelengths. …
Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer’s wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. The waves hold clues as to how energy moves through that atmosphere, known as the corona, …
In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASAâs Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s …
Created using thousand of individual images taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory , this video gives an incredible close up view of our sun Watch Earth LIVE from space: www.iss-live.com …
Two views of an X-class solar flare on Sept. 10, 2014. IRIS focuses on the lower regions of the sun’s atmosphere, while the SDO imagery shows a region that is …
A Solar Dynamics Observatory image published by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration reveals giant hole on Suns surface. The sun has sprung a leak: A hole in the topmost layer …
A dark, almost circular filament broke away from the sun in a gauzy, feathery swirl, on Nov. 15, 2015, in this video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. This filament eruption …