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Super Moon? How About a Super Sun!
[/caption] On May 5, 2012, while everyone else was waiting for the "Super Moon" astrophotographer Alan Friedman was out capturing…
How Big Was Monday’s CME?
This big! The M1.7-class flare that erupted from active region 1461 on Monday, April 16 let loose an enormous coronal…
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…
Dark Figures Do An Eerie Dance On The Sun
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this video on March 27 - 28 of two large areas of "dark" plasma on…
Huge Coronal Hole Is Sending Solar Wind Our Way
[/caption] An enormous triangular hole in the Sun's corona was captured earlier today by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, seen above…
Active Region Is Still Active!
[/caption] Even though the CME unleashed by active region 1429 initially hit Earth a bit softer than expected yesterday (read…
Sun Releases a Powerful X5 Flare
[/caption] Active Region 1429 unleashed an X5.4-class solar flare early this morning at 00:28 UT, as seen in this image…
Twisting and Eclipsing on the Sun
A video posted today by the team at NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows two recent events on the Sun: a…
Solar Explosions Spark Controversy
[/caption] Nowhere in the Solar System are conditions more extreme than the Sun. Every second it converts millions of tons…
Ulysses Passes Over Sun’s North Pole
Continuing on its epic journey around the Sun, Ulysses has reached the Sun's north pole just in the nick of time.…