Sun From Space

Report by sarah johnston.
Sun from space. Near live image of the sun in combined wavelengths 211 193 171 angstrom as seen by nasa s sdo. The sun is a star a hot ball of glowing gases at the heart of our solar system. Its influence extends far beyond the orbits of distant neptune and pluto. Seen from beneath venus dense sulfuric acid laden clouds the sun is no more than a dimly glowing patch in the perpetual overcast.
The stereo ahead spacecraft caught a large coronal mass ejection as it roared away from the sun and out into space in the opposite direction from earth feb. To display a larger image just click the thumbnail. As of june 2020 nasa s solar dynamics observatory sdo has now been watching the sun nonstop for over a full decade. And though it is special to us there are billions of stars like our sun scattered across the milky way galaxy.
From its orbit in space around earth sdo has gathered 425 million. To print click the print icon in the top right hand corner of the thumbnail. Click next or prev for a slideshow of all the images on the page. Nasa has released a high definition video of the sun from its space based solar observatory.
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