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IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora
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IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora

From space, the aurora is a crown of light that circles each of Earth’s poles. The IMAGE satellite captured this view of the aurora australis four days after a record-setting solar flare sent plasma flying towards the Earth.

Published Jan 25, 2006

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Earth’s Surface Magnetism
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Earth’s Surface Magnetism

Published May 22, 2004

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Lights On and Over the Southern Horizon
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Lights On and Over the Southern Horizon

An astronaut caught a glimpse of the aurora australis while looking out across the Indian Ocean.

Published Jul 2, 2017

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Sun Sends an Early Earth Day Greeting
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Sun Sends an Early Earth Day Greeting

The Suomi NPP satellite captured a glimpse of the northern lights over North America.

Published Apr 24, 2018

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Fire in the Sky and on the Ground
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Fire in the Sky and on the Ground

Astronauts on the International Space Station captured these views of the aurora australis and wildfires in Australia.

Published Sep 27, 2011

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Earth’s Orbital Precession
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Earth’s Orbital Precession

Precession—the change in orientation of the Earth's rotational axis—alters the orientation of the Earth with respect to perihelion and aphelion.

Published Mar 24, 2000

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Solar Storm
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Solar Storm

Published Aug 5, 2001

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Earth’s Magnetosphere
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Earth’s Magnetosphere

Earth is a great magnet, and scientists have spent a century exploring its shape and structure. This visualization shows the magnetic field around Earth, or magnetosphere.

Published Apr 23, 2011

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Solar Flare and Coronal Mass Ejection
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Solar Flare and Coronal Mass Ejection

This ultraviolet image, captured by NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) Ahead spacecraft on February 12, 2010, shows solar storms brewing in two active areas of the Sun.

Published Mar 20, 2010

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Mid-Summer Auroras
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Mid-Summer Auroras

Solar storms smacked into Earth’s magnetic field and provoked auroras over the southern and northern hemisphere just after the summer solstice.

Published Jun 28, 2015

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The Sun Erupts
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The Sun Erupts

A solar flare and coronal mass ejection in mid-July 2012 raised the possibility of geomagnetic storms and auroras.

Published Jul 14, 2012

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Views of a Distant Earth
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Views of a Distant Earth

On July 19, 2013, NASA spacecraft got not one but two rare and unique views of Earth from opposite ends of the solar system.

Published Jul 24, 2013

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Biggest Solar Flare on Record
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Biggest Solar Flare on Record

Published Apr 11, 2001

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