The moon photobombs the sun in a lunar transit in this view from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft taken on Oct. 19, 2017. (Image credit: Joy Ng/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO) ...

The sun isn't really purple. The SDO saw this solar eclipse on Feb. 11. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Joy Ng. NASA posted an eye-searing GIF Tuesday showing the SDO's view of a total ...

The Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, ... to enjoy an unobstructed view of the Sun. Of the three science packages, the Extreme UV Variability Experiment, or EVE, ...

How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

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Close up view of the sun during low activity and no solar flares. (Image credit: NASA) The SDO observes the sun with a variety of instruments and in many different wavelengths.

The image above was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on Dec. 2, 2023, through the project’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), which captures an image of the sun every .75 ...

The latest solar flare follows an M-class one, the second-highest on the scale, that occurred days earlier on June 15. It ...

A smiley face pattern was spotted on the sun in a NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) image taken on October 26, 2022. The pattern is the result of coincidentally-placed holes in the sun's ...

While millions of people who couldn't normally see the aurora borealis took in the recent color-filled spectacle in the night sky, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was looking straight at the sun ...

Comet Lovejoy traveled behind the Sun and reemerged as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.