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Visit science.nasa.gov for more! With a burst of solar flares and Northern Lights, the sun is waking up from a three-year slumber.
ScienceCasts: Solar Activity
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On August 1, 2010, the sun produced a complex event, or really a set of events. At approximately 8:55 UT a large filament on the northwest of the sun erupted and at nearly the same time in sunspot active region … Read more
Dust ground off icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, the cold-storage zone that includes Pluto and millions of other objects, creates a faint infrared disk potentially visible to alien astronomers looking for planets around the sun. Neptune’s gravitational imprint on … Read more
NASA has released stunning, detailed images of the sun taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. These are the first pictures to be shown to the public. Launched in February, the satellite is expected to return high-resolution images of the sun … Read more
Image taken on 2010-04-21 11:26:56 by NASA Goddard Photo and Video.
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Image taken on 2009-07-23 16:49:11 by nasa1fan/MSFC.
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Want more? Subscribe to NASA on itunes! phobos.apple.com Or get tweeted by NASA: twitter.com On April 3, 2009, countries from around the world participated in the ’100 Hours of Astronomy’ webcast to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. Produced to … Read more
Michael Fulton, a NASA contractor scientist who co-built new solar power systems in space is engineering solar power breakthroughs on earth.
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