10 Amazing Discoveries About the Sun From NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
In February 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — is celebrating its 10th year in space. Over the past decade the spacecraft has kept…
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Magnetic Explosions Observed on Sun – Unlike Anything Seen Before [Video]
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before. In the scorching upper reaches of the…
2019 Transit of Mercury Across the Sun in Stunning 4K [Video]
Starting around approximately 1200 – 1808 UTC (7:00 am – 1:38 pm ET) November 11, 2019, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory watched as Mercury moved across…
SDO Image Shows Our Sun in Different Wavelengths
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory views our Sun in ten different wavelengths because each wavelength reveals different solar features. This September 21, 2018, view of the Sun uses…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Spots Two Lunar Transits in Space
On September 9, 2018, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO, saw two lunar transits as the Moon passed in front of the Sun. A transit happens…
FOXSI Mission Will View The Sun With X-Ray Vision
Without special instrumentation, the Sun looks calm and inert. But beneath that placid façade are countless miniature explosions called nanoflares. These small but intense eruptions…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Reveals Sun’s Magnetic Field
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) scientists used their computer models to generate a view of the Sun’s magnetic field on August 10, 2018. The bright…
Amazing Solar Dynamics Observatory Image of Our Sun
Each and every day NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observes our Sun and relays observational data to scientists on Earth in an effort to understand…
SDO Views Our Sun In Three Different Wavelengths
From March 20-23, 2018, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured three sequences of our Sun in three different extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. The resulting images illustrate how…
NASA Satellites Recreate Solar CME Eruption in 3D
The more solar observatories, the merrier: Scientists have developed new models to see how shocks associated with coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, propagate from the…
Astronomers Reveal How a Magnetic Cage Stopped a Solar Eruption
A dramatic magnetic power struggle at the Sun’s surface lies at the heart of solar eruptions, new research using NASA data shows. The work highlights…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Views Total Solar Eclipse
On Sunday, February 11, 2018, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a total solar eclipse in space when Earth crossed its view of the…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Detects Solar Flare Pulses at Sun and Earth
When our Sun erupts with giant explosions — such as bursts of radiation called solar flares — we know they can affect space throughout the…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Views Rare Encircling Filament
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) came across an oddity that the spacecraft has rarely observed before: a dark filament encircling an active region (October 29-31,…
From Hot to Hottest, SDO Shows the Sun from Its Surface to Its Upper Atmosphere
This sequence of images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the Sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere all taken at about the same…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Spots a Lunar Transit
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a new image of a lunar transit when the Moon crossed the spacecraft’s view of the Sun. On October 19,…
Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Image of Mid-level Flare
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of a mid-level solar flare emitted from the sun on September 4th. The sun emitted a mid-level solar…
Astronomers Detail the Nature of Solar Brightness Variations
For the first time, researchers reconstruct and detail the two phenomena that are responsible for the fluctuation of brightness in our sun. The Sun shines…