Solar Dynamics Observatory

• Sun looks like a planet-eating jack-o’-lantern in festive NASA photo

  The sun‘s "pumpkin face" is caused by an "intense and complex set of magnetic fields," NASA says.

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  Oct 28, 2019
  
• WATCH: NASA space telescope captures Mercury transit

  NASA has released a beautiful video of the event as witnessed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a telescope that keeps a constant eye on the sun.

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  May 11, 2016
  
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• WATCH: Powerful solar flare seen in spectacular high-definition

  They are one of the most powerful eruptions on the surface of the sun, and on April 17, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured one in 4K.

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  Apr 26, 2016
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• Enormous sunspot turns towards Earth, chance of northern lights

  The sun has been very quiet over the past month, but a massive sunspot has formed that is several times the size of Earth.

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  Apr 12, 2016
• WATCH: NASA satellite captures beautiful eruption on sun

  A spectacular eruption of particles danced across the sun on Thursday, and a NASA satellite captured it all.

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  Feb 19, 2016
• WATCH: NASA’s ultra high-definition video of the sun’s activity over the past year

  NASA has released an ultra high-definition video of activity on the sun for the past six years and you will be mesmerized.

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  Feb 16, 2016
• WATCH: Surface of sun erupts with beautiful filament

  NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) released a video this week of a spectacular solar flare erupting from the surface of the sun.

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  Nov 27, 2015
• WATCH: Sun puts on spectacular show as gases erupt from surface

  The sun put on quite a show for both professional and amateur astronomers at the end of April as a solar prominence erupted from its surface.

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  May 4, 2015
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• Massive sunspot turning toward Earth, could give us northern lights

  A sunspot that is several Earths in diameter, is turning towards us, and it's already very active. What does this mean? We could see some great northern lights.

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  Oct 20, 2014
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• Why do we get the northern lights?

  The northern lights are coming to a night sky near you. Find out why.

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  Sep 11, 2014