Video: Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures its First Solar Eclipse
Your mom probably told you not to stare directly at the sun, but images like this one are hard to ignore. Captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) back on October 7, the image shows the...
View ArticleVideo: SDO Observatory Captures Another Beautiful, Gigantic Solar Storm
Last month’s solar storm was pretty stellar, but the massive flare that erupted from the sun yesterday put it to shame, lashing out from the solar surface in a beautiful filament that stretched for...
View ArticleObservatory Captures a Violently Beautiful Solar Flare On Video
Scientific observations often has to do with being in the right place at the right time, whether intentionally or not. In a stroke of good luck last Thursday the sun’s rotation, NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
View ArticleHow We're Still Trying to Shed Light on Persistent Solar Mysteries
Yesterday, the vernal equinox, the sun returned to the Northern Hemisphere at last. Nothing here or anywhere else in our corner of the galaxy would exist without the sun, yet…
View ArticleVideo: SDO Captures a Sunspot Cluster Swimming Around On The Sun's Surface
Sunspots aren’t static, and NASA has the amazing video footage to prove it. Captured in February, this clip taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows how sunspots surface, change, and grow over...
View ArticleVideo: This Morning There Was a Massive Solar Explosion
Regular readers know that PopSci can’t get enough of huge explosions on the surface of the sun. That puts us in a pretty good place right now, considering the current solar cycle is moving into a...
View ArticleA Massive Solar Eruption, the Strongest in 7 Years, Has Earth Bracing for a...
There was a time when one rarely had to worry about incoming doom born of outer space, but that time is not now.
View ArticleVideo: Venus Sweeps Across the Face of the Sun For the Last Time This Century
Watching the transit of Venus through telescopes at the local planetarium was impressive, but it was nothing compared to this view from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the…
View ArticleNASA Captures Rare, Beautiful Solar Rain [Video]
The rare event captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory last July is known as "coronal rain." It starts when a solar eruption spews plasma from the surface of the sun…
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