Solar Dynamics Observatory
Solar Dynamics Observatory Earns its Stripes
[/caption] "Now we know what it would look like if Jupiter and the sun had a child," joked Ralph Seguin…
Amazing Image: Map of Magnetic Field Lines of the Sun
[/caption] The Sun's corona is threaded with a complex network of magnetic fields, and this amazing new image from the…
Venus and Mercury Blasted by Recent Solar Storms
Update: Well, it turns out that while it looks like Venus and Mercury are getting pummeled by Coronal Mass Ejections,…
SDO Seeing ‘Butterfly Effect’ on the Sun
[/caption] Already, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has taken over 5 million images, and the firehose of data and…
New Weekly Sun Fix: SDO’s Pick of the Week
[/caption] Images and data are starting to roll in from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and the images are nothing short…
SDO Launch Scrub; Try Again Tomorrow
[/caption] Note: Nancy Atkinson is at Kennedy Space Center to cover SDO and the STS-130 shuttle mission Scrub! High winds…
The Solar Dynamics Observatory in 3.5 Minutes
This great new video (just uploaded today!) does a great job of explaining the upcoming Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission,…