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 ...

“SDO provides the front side view of the sun with exquisite details and very fast time resolution,” Gutharka told me. For the next 8 years, when combined with SDO data, ...

The orbit of SDO around the Earth permits it to enjoy an unobstructed view of the sun almost all the time, except a few times a year when the moon slips into the picture. SDO got this image on Nov ...

The sun appears to take a dizzying flip in a new video captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft. SDO did a full somersault on July 6 over the course of about 7 hours, taking ...

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

Most of the time SDO has a clear view of the Sun, like the way I drew the diagram. You can see that the orbital plane of SDO intersects the orbit of Earth at two points, called the nodes.

Credit: NRL 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.

The second highlight of SDO’s third year occurred June 5, 2012, when Venus crossed in front of the Sun as viewed from Earth — an occurrence that will not happen again for more than 100 years.

The unique 360° view of the Sun was unveiled February 6, 2011, ... The 360° coverage from STEREO is enhanced by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory mission (SDO), ...

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, ...

Usually NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory just orbits the Sun like a regular spacecraft, dutifully taking pictures every 12 seconds. It's been doing that since 2010, to further its mission of ...