NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a huge filament eruption in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/SDO | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Floating, Floating by Augus ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) used powerful HD cameras to film the sun for an entire year then sped up the footage to create this mesmerizing time-lapse. Produced by Zach Wasser.

Meanwhile the Solar Dynamics Observatory, launched into a geosynchronous orbit in February 2010, downloads 1.5 terabytes of data every day on the sun’s atmosphere, oscillations, and magnetic field.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) captured a solar prominence erupting from the sun's surface. The SDO used high-definition cameras to record the prominence on ...

But thanks to NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft, which has been snapping pictures of the sun for the last five years, we can see this massive monster in action, like in the SDO ...

such as NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and ESA's Solar Orbiter, as well as Earth-based telescopes, also turned their attention to the spectacular event. Watching a flare erupt from the sun ...