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Astrophoto: The Sun as a Work of Art
Here's a solar flare with a little flair added! Astrophotographer Rick Ellis from Toronto, Canada created this "artsy" Sun by…
Aurora Watch! Two Solar Particle Blasts Could Start Smacking Into Earth Friday
Bim, bam, smash! The Sun hurled two clouds of particles in our general direction, putting space weather watchers on alert.…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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)…
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…
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.,…
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…