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What Is Solar Energy
What is solar energy? Solar energy is the radiant energy produced by the Sun. It is both light and heat.…
Amazing Sunspot Image from New Solar Telescope
[/caption] A new type of adaptive optics for solar observations has produced some incredible results, providing the most detailed image…
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,…
The Sun is Waking Up: 5 Sunspots Today
Here's something we've not seen in a long while: five sunspots on the Sun at once. Is the Sun finally…
Are You Keeping an Eye on SDO Keeping an Eye on the Sun?
Have you been checking out the Solar Dynamics Observatory website and seeing all the amazing, high resolution images of our…
How Many Earths Can Fit in the Sun?
[/caption] So, how many Earths can fit in the Sun? The answer is that it would take 1.3 million Earths…
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 Wows With ‘First Light’ Images, Videos
[/caption] NASA's newest solar satellite is officially open for business and all we can say is, "Wow!" The Solar Dynamics…
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,…