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Enjoy This Eye-Meltingly Awesome Photo of Our Sun

Here's yet another glorious photo of our home star, captured and processed by New York artist and photographer Alan Friedman on…

10 years ago

Kapow! Moderate Solar Flare Erupts From The Sun, But Likely Won’t Affect Earth

While this solar peak has been weaker than usual, from time to time we get a moderate punch from the…

10 years ago

ISON Stopped Making Dust Just Before It Passed By The Sun And Disintegrated

Last year's Thanksgiving adventure for astronomers happened when Comet ISON passed within 1.2 million kilometres (750,000 miles) of the Sun.…

10 years ago

A Stunning Image of our Home Star

Active regions 2108 and 2109 are now passing around the limb of the Sun, but not before solar photography specialist Alan…

10 years ago

Blast! Sun Pops Off A Moderate Solar Flare. Could Others Follow Soon?

With a watchful NASA spacecraft capturing its moves, the Sun sent off a "mid-level" solar flare on Tuesday (July 8)…

10 years ago

Rosetta’s Comet Already Sweating The Small Stuff, Far From The Sun

Feeling thirsty? If you could somehow capture the water vapor from Rosetta's comet, you would have the equivalent of two…

10 years ago

Watch the Rise and Fall of a Towering Inferno on the Sun

Caught on camera by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a prominence blazes hundreds of thousands of miles out from the Sun's surface (i.e.,…

10 years ago

The Sun Fires Off a Third X-Class Flare

Remember yesterday when we mentioned two X-class flares erupting from the Sun within the space of about an hour? We…

10 years ago

The Sun Pops Off Two X-Class Solar Flares in One Day

In only a little over an hour, the Sun released two X-class solar flares today. The first occurred at 11:42…

10 years ago

Get Hypnotized: The Sun Never Sets In The First Vine Video From Space

Isn't there something so soothing about watching the Sun go around and around in this short video? This is the…

10 years ago