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On April 16, 2022, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash on the left side of this…
To the human eye, Mercury may resemble a dull, grey orb but this enhanced-color image from NASA’s Messenger probe, tells a completely different story. Swathes…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash in the top right portion of the…
The ESA/NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National…
A new study has identified a nearby star whose sunspot cycles appear to have stopped. Studying this star might help explain the period from the…
Animation of ESA’s Sun-explorer Solar Orbiter. Credit: ESA/Medialab Solar Orbiter’s latest images shows the full Sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on March 7,…
An artistic impression of the high-frequency retrograde (HFR) vorticity waves. These waves appear as swirling motions near the equator of the Sun. The rotation in…
The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a splendid example of expanding coronal loops seen in profile at the edge of the Sun. Credit: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory…
Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of…
Animation of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter making a close pass of the Sun. Credit: ESA/Medialab The ESA/NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
Vigil warns Earth. Credit: ESA It’s the first mission of its kind, set to monitor our active and unpredictable Sun and help protect us from…
The view from Earth: The red line indicates path of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe across the face of the Sun, as seen from Earth, from…
Apparent coronal loops observed by NASA’s Transition Region And Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft. Credit: NASA/TRACE New study challenges long-held assumptions about the structure of the…
Solar Orbiter and SOHO’s view of a giant eruption – close up. Credit: Solar Orbiter/EUI and SOHO/LASCO teams, ESA & NASA The ESA/NASAEstablished in 1958,…
A mid-level solar flare that peaked at 8:13 p.m. EDT on October 1, 2015, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA/SDO NASAEstablished in 1958,…
Through analysis of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found evidence of an extreme solar…
In 1999 Mysterious Finger-Like Features Were Spotted on the Sun – Now Scientists Have an Explanation
Still image of several supra-arcade downflows, also described as “dark, finger-like features,” occurring in a solar flare. The downflows appear directly above the bright flare…
An image of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, taken with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter. This particular image was taken…
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent…