The SunPopular TagsJames Webb Space Telescope – Engineering imagesHubble Space TelescopeVoyagerJames Webb Space Telescope - Science imagesJames Webb Space TelescopeavatarsEarth Observatory Image of the Day2023 Technology Showcase for Planetary ScienceEarth ObserverThe dark region seen on the face of the sun at the end of March 2013 is a coronal hole...This composite image of the Sun includes high-energy X-ray data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) shown in blue;...The Sun blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period (Feb....NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, constantly observes the outer regions of the Sun’s corona using a coronagraph, which...Animation of a CME leaving the Sun, slamming into our magnetosphere. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SOHO/ESA Sound: Juan Carlos Garcia To learn more...This illustration lays a depiction of the sun's magnetic fields over an image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on...Caption: This image from June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT shows the bright light of a solar flare on...This image from June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT shows the bright light of a solar flare on the...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...CME blast and subsequent impact at Earth -- This illustration shows a CME blasting off the Sun’s surface in the...On May 9, 2016, Mercury passed directly between the Sun and Earth, making a transit of the Sun. Mercury transits...The Sun blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period (Feb....X-rays stream off the sun in this first picture of the sun, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA Solar...