When sunspots erupt at nearly the same time, it could be something known as "sympathetic solar flares." A double eruption ...

More than a month after a flooded data center at Stanford University knocked out data processing operations for two NASA sun-studying spacecraft, solar scientists are starting to regain access to ...

Sunspot AR3663 erupted with powerful X1.6 and M4 solar flares. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks.

These results could benefit space weather forecasts.

A solar eclipse on April 27, 2025, as seen only by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory. When is the next solar eclipse? Yesterday and today — but they were not reported in advance. Why? They were only in ...

The damage caused by the flooding won't be repaired before 2025, a troubling pause given the Sun's current phase in its 11-year cycle. Reading time 2 minutes The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has ...

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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A NASA satellite that promises to deliver an ...