Extreme Solar Flares

From NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio. Solar flares may seem like far-away events, but they can damage satellites and even ground-based technologies and power grids. Every 11 years, as the sun [...]

Breathtaking New Images of the SUN

Don’t miss these images in 1080p, from the big CME on June 7, 2011. These unbelievable new images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory would have seemed impossible just a short [...]

Big Solar Eruption, Detail from STEREO spacecraft

The Sun erupted on March 19, 2010 in a coronal mass ejection. The STEREO A satellite captured it from one side, revealing huge loops of plasma blasting off the Sun’s [...]

Solar Tsunami

Excerpt from “Attack of the Sun.” The SOHO spacecraft has recorded the effect of all this rising energy. Its ultraviolet sensors show a wavy pattern of gas on the sun’s [...]

The Halloween Solar Storms

Excerpt from “Attack of the Sun… in 1080p.” The Halloween solar storms of 2003 were a wake up call for the risks that solar flares and coronal mass ejections pose [...]