How NASA Took the Closest-Ever Images of the Sun's Atmosphere
In 2024 NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured new images from within the Sun's atmosphere.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng
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NASA/GSFC/SDO/AIAA solar flare and the resulting shock wave as observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory, April 8, 2010.
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NASA/GSFC/SDO/AIAAn erupting solar prominence observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite on March 30, 2010.
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NASA/GSFC/SDO/HMIMagnetic fields in a sunspot pair, as observed by the Helioseismic Magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory, March 29, 2010. White and black trace opposite magnetic polarities.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.A solar eclipse is a celestial phenomenon occurring when the Moon appears to block out the Sun.
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