Sunspot AR3186 erupted with an X1-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

Sunspot AR3184 erupted with an X1.9-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured the fireworks. The sunspot has been very active since it rotated into SDO's view. Credit: ...

An international team, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Ângela Santos, has made the first ...

SDO blasted off on Feb. 11, 2010, riding into space on an Atlas V rocket, which initially placed SDO into an orbit 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) above Earth's surface.

NASA's SDO spacecraft is one of a fleet of sun-watching observatories monitoring the sun's solar activity. Email Tariq Malik at [email protected] or follow him @tariqjmalik and Google+.

Space.com: The Solar Dynamics Observatory is expected to replace the aging Solar and Heliospheric Observatory and provide improved sun-watching capabilities.

The Sun appears to be grinning as temperatures are set to rocket in the UK. A mini-heatwave is expected this week, with ...

When the cells were discovered in the fall of 2011, the SDO and the two STEREO — short for Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory — spacecraft each had widely different views of the Sun.

Instruments on board NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which has been observing the Sun since 2010, degraded by 40% within five years of its launch. Today, a group of scientists may have ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, set to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Feb. 9, will be the focus of a media opportunity at 9 a.m ...

But thanks to NASA colorizing these otherwise unseen visuals, we can see firsthand the sun as the SDO does during its rotation. ... October 20, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Scientists had regarded solar flares as one-off events, but NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has discovered that many have a second peak of energy emission that can outshine the first. The ...