(Image credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA) Don't be alarmed, but the sun is constantly exploding. While violent nuclear fusion reactions power the sun's 27-million-degree-Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius) core, towers of molten plasma, crackling radiation and electromagnetic energy ri...
This isn’t the first time that we’ve gotten a good look at a solar flare. Plenty of astrophotographers have managed to snap some great images andvideos of the Sunthrowing a tantrum. And, with so many spacecraft and observatories focused on the Sun, NASA is able to capture some fantast...
On February 11th, 2010, NASA launched a new spacecraft called the Solar Dynamics Observatory [SDO], which was designed to give more knowledge and clearer images of the Sun than any other spacecraft that has been launched before for this purpose. On April 21st, 2010, the scientists of NASA ...
NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites have provided the first three-dimensional images of the Sun in this space wallpaper.
However, such images are rare because the Sun appears much closer to Earth from a great distance, increasing the risk of damaging space camera sensors. Nonetheless, the Cassini spacecraft captured this stunning image when the Sun was behind Saturn. Cassini is a joint project of NASA and ESA ...
Related:NASA Parker Solar Probe nails close flyby of sun as its space weather cycle ramps up While Solar Orbiter doesn't fly as close as the Parker Solar Probe, it is equipped with high-tech cameras and telescopes that take images of the sun's surface from the closest distance ever. It...
NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have produced the first three-dimensional images of the Sun. The images, released on 23 April, will allow scientists to better understand and model solar storms and the drivers of adverse space weather....
On May 19th, 2005, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view of the Sun sinking below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera (Pancam) mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover’s 489th Martian day, or sol. Spirit was commanded to...
Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/The SUMER team, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany The placid appearance of the Sun's surface belies a hot fireball of plasma in constant turmoil. A granular network invisible to the naked eye pervades the solar disc, with cells ...
environment that close is extremely harsh," said Holly Gilbert, NASA's Solar Orbiter project scientist. "They have one camera that's not facing the sun, it's facing away so it can watch the solar wind. So Solar Orbiter is (at) the limit of where cameras can take images of the sun ...