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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.…
Yesterday’s Mammoth Solar Flare Is The Biggest Of 2014 So Far
She's a rainbow! You can see the first moments of a huge flare belching off the sun in the picture…
Astro-Challenge: Nabbing Venus… at Inferior Conjunction
Residents of high northern latitudes can take heart this frigid January: this coming weekend offers a chance to replicate a…
Zombie ISON ‘Behaving Like A Comet’, Stunned Astronomers Say
Talk about the Comeback Kid. After Comet C/2012 S1 ISON rounded the sun yesterday afternoon, professional astronomers around the world looked…
Astronomy Cast 322: SOHO
As we've mentioned before, the Sun is a terrifying ball of plasma. It's a good thing we're keeping an eye…
Weekend Aurora Alert: The Sun Lets Loose an Earth-Directed CME
The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this view as the Sun let loose with its biggest solar flare of the year…
Venus Moving in for a Transit
Venus is moving in! The LASCO C3 coronograph on board the SOHO spacecraft has been watching the approach of Venus…
Spacecraft Captures Mercury-Jupiter Conjunction
[/caption] Here’s a great shot from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft of Mercury (top planet) and Jupiter snuggling…
Watch Jupiter as a ‘Space Invader’
This great video created from images taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on May 13 and 14 show…