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Sunspot 1515 Release X1.1 Class Solar Flare
Sunspot 1515 Release X1.1 Class Solar Flare

This close-up image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the July 6, 2012 X-class flare captured in the…

Cosmic Cocoon
Cosmic Cocoon

Researchers have obtained the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the…

AR1515 Says Farewell with M6.9 Class Solar Flare
AR1515 Says Farewell with M6.9 Class Solar Flare

This image was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shortly after the peak of the M6.9 flare and shows…

Independence Day Solar Fireworks
Independence Day Solar Fireworks

This image, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the M5.3 class solar flare that peaked on July 4, 2012,…

The Next Generation Spacecraft
The Next Generation Spacecraft

More than 450 guests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida welcomed the arrival of the agency’s first space-bound Orion…

Independence Day Solar Fireworks
Independence Day Solar Fireworks

This image, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the M5.3 class solar flare that peaked on July 4, 2012,…

Sunspot 1515 Release M6.1 Solar Flare
Sunspot 1515 Release M6.1 Solar Flare

Huge sunspot AR1515 has released another M-class flare this morning. At 7:39am EDT the active region released an M6.1 class…

Independence Day Fireworks
Independence Day Fireworks

This image shows four separate images of the M5.3 class flare from the morning of July 4, 2012. In clockwise…

Enormous Saturn
Enormous Saturn

Compared to the gas giant, the two moons shown on either side of Saturn seem particularly small in this Cassini…

STS-122 Heads to the Pad: A Tribute to Alan Poindexter
STS-122 Heads to the Pad: A Tribute to Alan Poindexter

In this image from December 2008, the STS-122 mission crew members stride out of the Operations and Checkout Building, eager…