Our Sun experienced fewer sunspots in 2008 than it had since the 1957 launch of Sputnik. As of Sun-Earth Day on March 20, 2009, the Sun was continuing its quiet pattern.
Published Mar 20, 2009
NASA's newest sun-monitoring mission captures a detailed view of a prominence erupting on March 30, 2010.
Published Apr 22, 2010
A solar flare and coronal mass ejection in mid-July 2012 raised the possibility of geomagnetic storms and auroras.
Published Jul 14, 2012
For the first time in history, the world has a full view of the far side of the Sun and of the entire 360-degree sphere at once.
Published Feb 17, 2011
A bright mass of charged particles loops from the Sun’s outer atmosphere during a solar storm on May 23, 2010. Taken two hours apart, the pair of images shows the stream of particles moving away from the Sun during a coronal mass ejection.
Published Jun 20, 2010
On January 23, 2012, satellites observed the most powerful solar radiation storm since 2005.
Published Jan 24, 2012
At 20 times the size of Earth, the largest sunspot observed since the November 2003 series of solar storms is now pointed directly at Earth.
Published Jul 24, 2004
