NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spotted the X1.1-class solar flare that erupted from the sun at 11:13 p.m. EST on March 4 (0413 GMT March 5). This series of photographs of the 2012 Venus transit was ...

Watch this one-week time-lapse of the coronal hole in the Sun's atmosphere from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Amazing ...

"Previously published in Solar Physics volume 275, issues 1-2, 2012"--T.p. Preface / R. R. Fisher -- The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) / W. Dean Pesnell, B. J. Thompson and P. C. Chamberlin -- The ...

Sunspot AR3256 erupted with an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

An M3-class solar flare that lasted about 3 hours created a massive coronal mass ejection. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured the fireworks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured the moon ...

The sun unleashed two huge flares early Wednesday, one day after a NASA observatory captured a dramatic photo of a separate solar flare. The back-to-back eruptions included the strongest of the year ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at the very beginning of its hour-long launch window at 10:23 a.m. EST Feb. 11, kicking off a planned ...

(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers with Aberystwyth University in the U.K. has used data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory to learn more about how the sun's corona behaves over differing stages of ...

Ground winds at Launch Pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., prevented the launch of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) during its one-hour launch window on Feb. 10, forcing the ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.