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Our Gorgeous, Graceful, Gradient Sun

Here's a mesmerizing video from the folks over at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's visualization studio showing the Sun in…

12 years ago

Astrophoto: Stunning Sun Halo Revisited

When we posted an astrophoto earlier this week of a spectacular 22-degree Sun halo seen in Kuala Lumpur, we quickly…

12 years ago

Astrophoto: Spectacular 22-Degree Sun Halo Over Kuala Lumpur

A 22 degree Sun halo was seen in Kuala Lumpur on October 2, 2012. Credit: Shahrin Ahmad Denizens of Kuala…

12 years ago

Peekaboo Sun: SDO’s Eclipse Season

Now you see it, now you don't! Around the solstices, the Solar Dynamics Observatory ends up having an “eclipse season,”…

12 years ago

Parallax Effect Charted in the 2012 Transit of Venus

Combined images taken simultaneously (06 June 2012, 03:46:18 UTC) from Svalbard and Canberra, showing the Venus parallax effect from 2…

12 years ago

Planets in our Solar System May Have Formed in Fits and Starts

Solar shockwaves would have produced proto-planetary rings at different times, meaning the planets did not form simultaneously (artist concept). Credit:…

12 years ago

STEREO Spots a CME Soaring Into Space

Press "play." Say "wow." The enormous eruption of a solar prominence and resulting coronal mass ejection (CME) back on August…

12 years ago

Huge Eruption on the Sun Revisited in Spectacular HD

This one may truly knock your socks off. Remember the spectacular filament eruption on the Sun on August 31 that…

12 years ago

Watch This: Solar Prominence Achieves Liftoff

And we have liftoff! The Solar Dynamics Observatory has been providing images and video of some beautiful prominences and filaments…

12 years ago

Spectacular Filament Eruption on the Sun Captured by SDO

Yikes! Not to be outdone by the Blue Moon, the Sun had some impressive action on August 31, 2012 as…

12 years ago