In February 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — is celebrating its 10th year…
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a pioneering mission dedicated to studying the Sun and its dynamic behavior with unprecedented clarity and detail. Launched in 2010, SDO continuously monitors solar activity, including sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections, providing critical data that helps scientists understand how solar variability impacts Earth and the broader solar system. Its high-resolution observations have revolutionized solar physics, contributing to breakthroughs in space weather forecasting and heliophysics. Follow the latest discoveries and mission updates from the Solar Dynamics Observatory here.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never…
Starting around approximately 1200 – 1808 UTC (7:00 am – 1:38 pm ET) November 11,…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory views our Sun in ten different wavelengths because each wavelength reveals different solar…
On September 9, 2018, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO, saw two lunar transits as the…
Without special instrumentation, the Sun looks calm and inert. But beneath that placid façade are…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) scientists used their computer models to generate a view of…
Each and every day NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observes our Sun and relays observational…
From March 20-23, 2018, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured three sequences of our Sun in…
The more solar observatories, the merrier: Scientists have developed new models to see how shocks…
A dramatic magnetic power struggle at the Sun’s surface lies at the heart of solar…
On Sunday, February 11, 2018, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a total solar…
When our Sun erupts with giant explosions — such as bursts of radiation called solar…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) came across an oddity that the spacecraft has rarely observed…
This sequence of images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the Sun from its surface…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a new image of a lunar transit when the Moon…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of a mid-level solar flare emitted from the…
For the first time, researchers reconstruct and detail the two phenomena that are responsible for…