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Join the search for solar jets! 🔎 NASA Citizen Science's Solar Jet Hunter project invites you to help find solar jets, or ejections of matter from the Sun. For more: https://go.nasa.gov/3tsRTDZ | NASA Space Alerts
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Join the search for solar jets! 🔎 NASA Citizen Science's Solar Jet Hunter project invites you to help find solar jets, or ejections of matter from the Sun. For more: https://go.nasa.gov/3tsRTDZ | NASA Space Alerts
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The Sun’s only visible active region sputtered and spurted and eventually unleashed a small solar flare on Feb. 7, captured here by our Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite. The flare appears as a brief, bright flash about midway through the half-day-long clip. Normally, a flare this small might not catch much attention, but solar activity is increasingly rare as the Sun is slowly approaching solar minimum, a natural low point in its 11-year activity cycle. These images were taken in a wavelengt
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The Sun’s only visible active region sputtered and spurted and eventually unleashed a small solar flare on Feb. 7, captured here by our Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite. The flare appears as a brief, bright flash about midway through the half-day-long clip. Normally, a flare this small might not catch much attention, but solar activity is increasingly rare as the Sun is slowly approaching solar minimum, a natural low point in its 11-year activity cycle. These images were taken in a wavelengt
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Have you heard? We are now officially in the solar maximum phase! That means we’re in the part of the 11-year solar cycle where solar eruptions, geomagnetic storms, and auroras are most likely to occur. But how do scientists tell where we are in the solar cycle? They count sunspots! Those dark solar splotches tell a story: As solar activity waxes and wanes, so does the sunspot count. But don’t just take our word for it – try it yourself! Track the current and past solar cycles with these fun sun
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Have you heard? We are now officially in the solar maximum phase! That means we’re in the part of the 11-year solar cycle where solar eruptions, geomagnetic storms, and auroras are most likely to occur. But how do scientists tell where we are in the solar cycle? They count sunspots! Those dark solar splotches tell a story: As solar activity waxes and wanes, so does the sunspot count. But don’t just take our word for it – try it yourself! Track the current and past solar cycles with these fun sun
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2023 ended with flare! A strong solar flare – X5.0 – erupted from the Sun just hours before the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31 in North America, dethroning Dec. 14’s X2.8 solar flare as the largest of the year and of Solar Cycle 25. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/41EqcER | NASA Space Alerts
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2023 ended with flare! A strong solar flare – X5.0 – erupted from the Sun just hours before the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31 in North America, dethroning Dec. 14’s X2.8 solar flare as the largest of the year and of Solar Cycle 25. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/41EqcER | NASA Space Alerts
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The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3, 2017. Our Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images of the three events. Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/2oQVFju Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/b0avDc48hPM | NASA Space Alerts
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The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3, 2017. Our Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images of the three events. Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/2oQVFju Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/b0avDc48hPM | NASA Space Alerts
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Today the Sun released another solar flare! 💥 Solar flares are intense bursts of radiation from the Sun that can be seen as bright flashes of light. Today’s M-class – or medium-sized – flare was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. | NASA Space Alerts
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Earlier this week, scientists reported a unique eruption on the Sun that had components of three separate types of eruptions — a solar ‘Rosetta Stone’ that may help scientists unlock the mechanism behind all classes of solar blasts. On top of solar explosions, the Sun has a huge range of other dynamic phenomena and events that shape space, from the surface of the Sun and across billions of miles of the solar system. Explore different types of solar eruptions and feature: https://go.nasa.gov/2Tpb
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This Sunday, take in our star through the eyes of our Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite, which watches the Sun constantly from space. A developing filament near the Sun’s edge churned and twisted as it rotated into view of the Solar Dynamics Observatory on Nov. 16-17. Filaments are cooler and often unstable clouds of particles suspended above the Sun's surface by magnetic forces. These images were taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light, which is typically invisible to our eyes, bu
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This one deserves a close up! 📸 Here’s another, multi-wavelength look at today’s X8.7-class solar flare, the most powerful of this solar cycle. The Sun’s activity waxes and wanes over an 11-year period known as the solar cycle. Solar cycle 25 began in December 2019 and is now approaching solar maximum — a period when eruptions like this one become more common. | NASA Space Alerts
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In September, scientists announced that our Sun has entered a new cycle. ☀️🔄 As sunspots and flares, signs of a new solar cycle, bubble from the Sun’s surface, scientists wonder what this next cycle will look like. The short answer is, probably a lot like the last — that is, the past 11 years of the Sun’s life, since that’s the average length of any given cycle. But the longer story involves a panel of experts that meets once a decade, a fleet of Sun-studying satellites, and dozens of complicat
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Solar material twists above the sun’s surface in this close-up captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 7-8, 2016, showcasing the turbulence caused by combative magnetic forces on the sun. This spinning cloud of solar material is part of a dark filament angling down from the upper left of the frame. Filaments are long, unstable clouds of solar material suspended above the sun’s surface by magnetic forces. SDO captured this video in wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light, which is
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NASA confirms solar crossfire to blast Earth 'within hours'—22 states face blackouts
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Scientists have just announced the first discoveries from Parker Solar Probe’s daring mission to the Sun! What they’ve learned has changed our understanding of the way the Sun releases material and particles, influencing Earth and the entire solar system: https://go.nasa.gov/34Qj1LC These new findings include: 💨 surprises about the behavior of the Sun’s constant outflow of material, the solar wind 💥 never-before-seen particle bursts that are too small to measure from Earth 🧹 some of the first
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This SUNday, dive into the first science results from Parker Solar Probe! ☀️ With observations from closer to the Sun than ever before, we're learning new things about the solar wind, the Sun's energetic particles, and cosmic dust: https://go.nasa.gov/34Qj1LC En español: https://go.nasa.gov/2s65EZi | NASA Space Alerts
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The Sun emitted a strong solar flare on Jan. 5, 2023, peaking at 7:57 p.m. ET. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the event, which was classified as X-class. bit.ly/3IsPJsW Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however – when intense enough – they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS & communications signals travel. To see how such space weath
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The Sun emitted a strong solar flare on Dec. 14, 2023, peaking at 12:02 ET. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the event, which was classified as X2.8. https://go.nasa.gov/3Ts3a1Q Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground. However – when intense enough – they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS & communications signals travel. To see how such spac
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The Sun emitted a strong solar flare on Aug. 7, 2023, peaking at 4:46 EDT. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the event, which was classified as X1.5. https://go.nasa.gov/3qkZkLM Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground. However – when intense enough – they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS & communications signals travel. To see how such space
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Happy #SunDay! This week’s space weather report includes 4 notable solar flares, 22 coronal mass ejections, and 1 geomagnetic storm. This video of the Sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows some of the space weather activity of the past week. | NASA Space Alerts
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Good news: Parker Solar Probe phoned home! ☎️ The spacecraft is in good health after its latest swing through the solar corona. On this pass, Parker matched the distance and speed records that it set during its previous solar flyby in December. Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/4kXvRzb | NASA Space Alerts
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The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 1:53 a.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts. This flare is classified as an X2.5 flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more info
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Happy #SunDay! This week’s space weather report includes: · 7 C-class solar flares · 8 M-class flares · 24 coronal mass ejections · 1 geomagnetic storm This video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows activity on the Sun over the past week. To learn more about solar flares, visit: https://go.nasa.gov/3m9w4p4 | NASA Space Alerts
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been watching the Sun for 15 years — and this spacecraft sees much more than meets the eye! SDO’s 10 imaging channels capture visible, ultraviolet, and extreme ultraviolet light, helping scientists study solar material at a range of different temperatures. Together, they reveal a prismatic picture of our ever-changing star. NASA’s Illuminate: Out-of-this-world images shining light on our Sun and solar system. #NASAsIlluminate #NASA #SolarMax #Sun #spac
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The Sun emitted two strong solar flares, peaking at 9:41 p.m. ET on May 7, 2024, and 1:09 a.m. ET on May 8, 2024. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the events, which were both classified as X1.0. https://go.nasa.gov/3UTOd9m Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground. However — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS & communic
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Our solar system is filled with a sea of charged particles that flow out from the Sun, called the solar wind. To accompany Earth’s journey sailing this celestial ocean, some of our scientists banded together on a heliophysics sea shanty. 🌊⛵️ Sing along: https://youtu.be/LP3qzKGh1AM Lyrics: [Verse 1] There once was a star in a galaxy It was named the Sun and thankfully It weaves a solar tapestry Sends particles high and low [Chorus] Soon may the solar wind come To bring us plasma and magnetism F
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Sunquakes are seismic events that ripple across the Sun’s surface after a solar flare. Scientists have long thought sunquakes start in the solar atmosphere, traveling down — but new research suggests they actually begin below the solar surface. https://go.nasa.gov/3bypVve | NASA Space Alerts
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Four facts about the solar wind that will blow your mind: ☀️🌬️🤯 1. The solar wind has been blowing non-stop since the Sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago. ⌛ 2. It travels about 1 million miles an hour (and faster). 🏃 3. It carries about 1.5 million tons of mass away from the Sun every second. 😯 4. It could keep blowing at that rate for a TRILLION YEARS without depleting the Sun! ⚖️ Q: That’s a lot of solar wind — so where does it all go? 🤔👇 A: The solar wind fills space around us to cre
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Happy anniversary, Hinode! Celebrating 17 years of spectacular solar science captured by the JAXA-led Hinode solar observatory. Hinode explores how the Sun’s magnetic energy drives solar eruptions. It has also recorded incredible views of eclipses from orbit. | NASA Space Alerts
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In its 10 years observing the Sun, our Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite has gathered over 425 million high-resolution images of our star. This 10-year time lapse showcases photos taken at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, which is an extreme ultraviolet wavelength that shows the Sun’s outermost atmospheric layer — the corona. Compiling one photo every hour, the movie condenses a decade of the Sun into 61 minutes. The video shows the rise and fall in activity that occurs as part of the Sun’s 1
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