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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…
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…
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…
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…
Incredible View of an Active Region on the Sun
Wow! What a view of Active Region 1542 on the Sun! César Cantú from the Chilidog Observatory in Monterrey, Mexico…
Huge Solar Filament Stretches Across the Sun
Caption: High resolution full disc hydrogen alpha composite of the Sun on August 5, 2012, comprising of 6 images for…
Guest Post: Our Explosive Sun
Editor's note: Pål Brekke is a Norwegian solar physicist with a doctorate from the University of Oslo in astrophysics and…
HI-C Returns Most Detailed Images Ever of the Sun’s Corona
NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) mission, launched Wednesday, July 11 from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, successfully returned…
Prelude to an X-Class Solar Flare
Caption: Shimmering coronal loops from Active Region 1515 on the limb of the Sun before it rotates out of view…
Incoming! CME On Its Way Toward Earth
As you read this, a huge cloud of charged solar particles is speeding toward our planet, a coronal mass ejection…