By Miles Hatfield NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center On Friday, June 28, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observed a solar prominence erupting off the limb, or edge, of the Sun. Solar prominences are loops of comparatively cold, dense solar material that become suspended in the Sun's super-hot outer atmosphere. Because they are colder and denser than …
By Miles Hatfield and Lina Tran NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The solar wind — the hot gas streaming from the Sun — shapes the very space around us. It douses the solar system in a soup of energetic particles and magnetic fields. It sparks aurora on Earth and Jupiter. It has changed the very …
By Sarah Frazier NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center On March 6, 2019, our Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, witnessed a lunar transit — where both the Sun and Moon displayed a little odd behavior. First, there was the transit itself. A lunar transit occurs when the Moon passes between SDO and the Sun, blocking the …
By Tom Bridgman, Ph.D. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio In my nearly 20 years making visualizations at NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, "Argo Sun"— a simultaneous view of the Sun in various wavelengths of light — is probably one of my favorites. It is not only scientifically useful, but it's one of the …
