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A Solar Flare of Many Colors

Here's a great look at a beautiful, leaping C2.2-Class solar flare from the Sun on January 5, 2012. The Solar…

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[/caption] This is an awesome image of the Sun captured by Efrain Morales Rivera from the Jaicoa Observatory in Aguadilla,…

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[/caption] January brings us striking views of the night skies! You'll be able to see well known constellations during the…

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[/caption] As 2011 is drawing to a close, the festive season is here and many of us are winding down…

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A video posted today by the team at NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows two recent events on the Sun: a…

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[/caption]According to a new set of NASA computer simulations, solar storms and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can erode the lunar…

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[/caption] Voyager 1 is in uncharted territory. The long-lived spacecraft has entered a new region of space that lies between…

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[/caption] While many in the U.S. will be recovering from Thanksgiving day meals and looking for ways to stretch their…

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[/caption] A huge wall of plasma rose from the Sun's southeast limb over the weekend, with what might be one…

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[/caption] The Solar Dynamics Observatory takes images of the Sun about every 10 seconds, so it easily was able to…

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