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STS111-321-024 (5-19 June 2002) --- This sunset over the Sahara Desert was photographed by the STS-111 crew members aboard the...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – seen as the bright flash on the Sun's...
A solar flare erupting from the right edge of the Sun
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare seen as the bright flash on the limb of...
a close up image of a solar flare on the Sun, with the Earth inset at scale for size comparison
The Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun at the point of the maximum of the partial solar...
In the darkness of the sky, the Sun appears as a thin crescent of orange gold. The Moon blocks most of it from view.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash toward the...
The Sun, colorized in teal. There are many bright active areas on the star, including on the bottom left and bottom right areas. Toward the upper middle of the Sun, there is a bright flash, creating an "X" shape.
iss065e013242 (May 2, 2021) --- An orbital sunrise is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash near the...
A view of the Sun colorized in blue shows two bright flashes of light near the Sun's center and top
The Sun is seen rising behind the launch pad, Monday, March 19, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition...
The Sun is seen rising behind the launch pad, Monday, March 19, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 55 crewmembers Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel of NASA and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch at 1:44 p.m. Eastern time (11:44 p.m. Baikonur time) on March 21 and will spend the next five months living and working aboard the International Space Station.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash in the...
The Sun, shown in bronze. There are several bright areas and one very dark splotch. On the upper left is a bright white line – this is the flare.
The Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National...
The Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured these images of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flashes in the...
A teal Sun is slowly rotating against the black expanse of space. A few bright active regions are seen on the Sun. On the upper left area, there eruption of light off the Sun, then again a few moments later. On the bottom left, a small eruption of solar material is seen.
The diamond-ring effect occurred at the beginning and end of totality during a total solar eclipse. As the last bits of sunlight pass...
An image of a sundog, one of the most common types of ice halos. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2014/02/03/reader-pics-sundogs/ Image Credit: Adam Voiland
The focal point of the image is the bright sun, centered. Two reflections of the sun are seen to the left and right of the main bright spot. Below the sun is a grassy landscape with a bush directly below the sun. The sky is a dark blue color.
Parker Solar Probe's Wide Field Imagery for Solar Probe (WISPR) camera observes as the spacecraft passes through a massive coronal...
In black and white, a cloud from a CME pushes the bright speckles of dust out of the way, leaving a screen of near darkness.
A large sunspot was the source of a powerful solar flare (an X 9.3) and a coronal mass ejection (Sept....
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observed a large sunspot, source of a powerful solar flare (an X 9.3) and a coronal mass ejection (Sept. 6, 2017). The flare was the largest solar flare of the last decade.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of an M9-class flare on Oct 20, 2012 at 2:14 p.m. EDT....
iss063e058598 (July 24, 2020) --- The sun's first rays burst over the Earth's horizon during an orbital sunrise as the...
The sun's first rays burst over the Earth's horizon during an orbital sunrise as the International Space Station orbited above the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia.
A dark line snaked across the lower half of the sun on Feb.10, 2015, as seen in this image from...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash on the...
A golden Sun, with bright active regions scattered across it. In the upper right area of the Sun, a bright burst of solar material shoots off the Sun.
NASA image captured December 6, 2010 To view a video of this event go here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5258354738 A very long solar...
The Sun blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period (Feb....
The dark region seen on the face of the sun at the end of March 2013 is a coronal hole...
The dark region seen on the face of the sun at the end of March 2013 is a coronal hole just above and to the right of the middle of the picture, which is a source of fast solar wind leaving the sun in this image from NASA Solar Dynamic Observatory.
iss072e030246 (Oct. 7, 2024) --- The first rays of an orbital sunrise illuminate Earth's atmosphere in this photograph from the...
The first rays of an orbital sunrise illuminate Earth's atmosphere in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the Pacific Ocean near Chile's Patagonia coast on the South American continent.
This composite image of the Sun includes high-energy X-ray data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) shown in blue;...
This composite image of the Sun includes high-energy X-ray data from NASA's NuSTAR shown in blue; lower energy X-ray data from the XRT on the JAXA's Hinode mission shown in green; and ultraviolet light detected by the AIA on NASA's SDO shown in red.
Caption: An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side of the sun on the evening of Feb. 24, 2014....
Flaring, active regions of our sun are highlighted in this image combining observations from several telescopes. High-energy X-rays from NASA's...
Flaring, active regions of our sun are highlighted in this image combining observations from NASA's NuSTAR. During the observations, microflares went off, which are smaller versions of the larger flares that also erupt from the sun surface.
Photographers at NASA capture the sunset on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, near Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space...
A solar flare bursts off the left limb of the sun in this image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory...
Caption: This image from June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT shows the bright light of a solar flare on...
Sun Emits a Solstice CME
X-rays stream off the sun in this first picture of the sun, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA Solar...
X-rays stream off the sun in this first picture of the sun, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO, taken by NASA NuSTAR. The field of view covers the west limb of the sun.
On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona,...
On Nov. 22, 2014 from 5:29 to 6:04 p.m. EST., the moon partially obscured the view of the sun from...