[embedded content] The Sun has entered its 25th solar cycle and is about to wake up. For the last few years our star has been…
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An X-class solar flare from our sun in November 2013. Scientists trained a neural network to find such flares in data taken of distant planets…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Joy Ng On October 16, 2020, the Moon photobombed NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory’s view of the Sun. This apparent crossing…
NASA’s extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to study the Sun extremely close-up – one of the agency’s spacecraft is even on its way…
Coronal magnetic field lines obtained from the PFSS model. Credit: Z.-H. Yang et al., Science (2020) The Sun is a magnetized star. Its magnetic field…
These images showing nanojets on the Sun were captured by NASA’s IRIS mission on Apr. 3, 2014. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s IRIS…
This split image shows the difference between an active Sun during solar maximum (on the left, captured in April 2014) and a quiet Sun during…
[embedded content]Understanding the Sun’s behavior is an important part of life in our solar system. Scientists use several indicators to track solar cycle progress. Credit:…
Image shows a CME erupting from the Sun’s surface, captured from either side by imaging cameras on board the two STEREO spacecraft. The red and…
Coronal magnetic field lines obtained from the PFSS model. Credit: Z.-H. Yang et al., Science (2020) An international team led by Professor Tian Hui from…
Artist’s conception of waves trapped between the surface of a sunspot (lower image, taken with the GREGOR Fabry-Perot Interferometer) and the transition region (upper image,…
Europe’s largest solar telescope GREGOR reveals intricate structures of solar magnetic fields in very high resolution. The image was taken at the wavelength of 516…
Figure 1. The process of solar flare production in the physics-based prediction method. A: Electric currents flow along magnetic field lines across the magnetic polarity…
A map of the coronal magnetic field strength superimposed on a coronal image taken by the AIA instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: Yang…
The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft took this image on May 30, 2020. It shows the Sun’s appearance at a wavelength…
This animation shows a series of views of the Sun captured with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter on May 30, 2020.…
Ionized gas inside the Sun moves toward the poles near the surface and toward the equator at the base of the convection zone (at a…
June 24, 2020 Moving at eight kilometers (five miles) per second, the International Space Station (ISS) circles our planet every 90 minutes. In a 24-hour…
This composite image is made from 151 individual SDO frames. They span the full ten-year run of the time lapse and a few notable events…
A composite view of the coronal mass ejection via STEREO-A instruments: EUVI imager and coronagraph COR2. Credit: STEREO-A/EUVI + COR2 Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of…