Solar Explosions Spark Controversy
[/caption] Nowhere in the Solar System are conditions more extreme than the Sun. Every second it converts millions of tons of matter into energy to create the intense levels of heat and light we expect...
View ArticleTwisting and Eclipsing on the Sun
A video posted today by the team at NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows two recent events on the Sun: a twisting prominence and the “eclipse” of a plasma eruption by the structure of a darker,...
View ArticleSuper Moon? How About a Super Sun!
[/caption] On May 5, 2012, while everyone else was waiting for the “Super Moon” astrophotographer Alan Friedman was out capturing this super image of a super Sun from his back yard in Buffalo, NY!...
View ArticleSTEREO Spots a CME Soaring Into Space
Press “play.” Say “wow.” The enormous eruption of a solar prominence and resulting coronal mass ejection (CME) back on August 31 that was captured in amazing HD by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory was...
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A Branching “Tree” of Solar Plasma
Hydrogen-alpha photo of the Sun by Alan Friedman An enormous tree-shaped prominence spreads its “branches” tens of thousands of miles above the Sun’s photosphere in this image, a section of a photo...
View ArticleWatch the Sun Split Apart
Here’s your amazing oh-my-gosh-space-is-so-cool video of the day — a “canyon of fire” forming on the Sun after the liftoff and detachment of an enormous filament on September 29-30. A new video,...
View ArticleWatch the Rise and Fall of a Towering Inferno on the Sun
Caught on camera by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, a prominence blazes hundreds of thousands of miles out from the Sun’s surface (i.e., photosphere) on May 27, 2014. The image above, seen in...
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A Stunning Image of our Home Star
Active regions 2108 and 2109 are now passing around the limb of the Sun, but not before solar photography specialist Alan Friedman grabbed a few pictures of them on Friday! The image above, captured...
View ArticleEnjoy This Eye-Meltingly Awesome Photo of Our Sun
Here’s yet another glorious photo of our home star, captured and processed by New York artist and photographer Alan Friedman on August 24, 2014. Alan took the photo using his 90mm hydrogen-alpha...
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