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Yesterday’s Mammoth Solar Flare Is The Biggest Of 2014 So Far
She's a rainbow! You can see the first moments of a huge flare belching off the sun in the picture…
Astro-Challenge: Nabbing Venus… at Inferior Conjunction
Residents of high northern latitudes can take heart this frigid January: this coming weekend offers a chance to replicate a…
Zombie ISON ‘Behaving Like A Comet’, Stunned Astronomers Say
Talk about the Comeback Kid. After Comet C/2012 S1 ISON rounded the sun yesterday afternoon, professional astronomers around the world looked…
Astronomy Cast 322: SOHO
As we've mentioned before, the Sun is a terrifying ball of plasma. It's a good thing we're keeping an eye…
Weekend Aurora Alert: The Sun Lets Loose an Earth-Directed CME
The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this view as the Sun let loose with its biggest solar flare of the year…
Venus Moving in for a Transit
Venus is moving in! The LASCO C3 coronograph on board the SOHO spacecraft has been watching the approach of Venus…
Spacecraft Captures Mercury-Jupiter Conjunction
[/caption] Here’s a great shot from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft of Mercury (top planet) and Jupiter snuggling…
Watch Jupiter as a ‘Space Invader’
This great video created from images taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on May 13 and 14 show…
Navy Scientists Spot New Solar Structures
[/caption] There's something new under the Sun... well, just above the Sun, actually. Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have…