The Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has also provided stunning images of the Sun, like this CGI-like sequence of a failed solar eruption. Images like that have captured imaginations during ...

or SDO, captured the image below in August. The sun's surface was covered in active sunspot regions, which produce space weather that impacts Earth. The PHI instrument team used 25 images captured ...

Spicules on the sun, as observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. These bursts of gas jet off the surface of the sun at 150,000 miles per hour and contain gas that reaches temperatures over a ...

Archives from two of SDO's three science instruments — the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Array (AIA), which study the sun in different wavelengths of light ...