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This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erupting from the star.

Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.

The first mission in NASA's Living With a Star program, a slate of projects focused around understanding solar variability, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) launched Feb. 11, 2010. The spacecraft ...

Sun Region 4366 has produced dozens of solar flares since Jan. 30, "putting on quite a show," says Slooh President and ...

Watch this one-week time-lapse of the coronal hole in the Sun's atmosphere from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Amazing One-Week Time-Lapse Capturing A Gigantic Coronal Hole On Sun Via NASA's Solar ...

"Previously published in Solar Physics volume 275, issues 1-2, 2012"--T.p. Preface / R. R. Fisher -- The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) / W. Dean Pesnell, B. J. Thompson and P. C. Chamberlin -- The ...

Space scientists have announced that the Sun has fired four massive solar flares. The outbursts were captured by NASA’s Solar ...

The Sun unleashed powerful X-class solar flares from sunspot region AR 4366, tracked by NASA and the Solar Dynamics ...

NASA captured an image of an intense solar flare released by the sun on Tuesday evening. The solar flare peaked at 5:49 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory said. It was an X-class ...

The $850 million Solar Dynamics Observatory may help scientists find the causes of solar weather events that disrupt technologies on Earth—while taking unprecedented high-resolution pictures of the ...

The flares are coming from a solar region that was created in late January.