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Navy Scientists Spot New Solar Structures
[/caption] There's something new under the Sun... well, just above the Sun, actually. Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have…
The Sun Does a Barrel Roll
Well, not really...... The Sun didn't do a barrel roll; it was actually the Solar Dynamics Observatory that performed a…
Dark Figures Do An Eerie Dance On The Sun
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this video on March 27 - 28 of two large areas of "dark" plasma on…
Huge ‘Tornado’ on the Sun
[/caption] The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images and video of a spectacular rotation of material from the Sun in a…
Recent Solar Storms Pumped 26 billion Kilowatts of Energy into Earth’s Atmosphere
The recent solar activity did more than spark pretty auroras around the poles. Researchers say the solar storms of March…
What Does a Solar Storm Sound Like?
Of course, there is no sound in space, but sonfication is a process where any kind of non-auditory data is…
Does The Sun Rotate?
The rotation of the Sun is kind of hard to pin down. That's because a day on the Sun depends…
Huge Coronal Hole Is Sending Solar Wind Our Way
[/caption] An enormous triangular hole in the Sun's corona was captured earlier today by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, seen above…
Characteristics of the Sun
[/caption] Mass: 1.98892 x 1030 kg Diameter: 1,391,000 kilometers Radius: 695,500 km Surface gravity of the Sun: 27.94 g Volume…
Active Region Is Still Active!
[/caption] Even though the CME unleashed by active region 1429 initially hit Earth a bit softer than expected yesterday (read…