Polar Whirlwind Observed Circulating on Sun’s North Pole
Filament of solar plasma, Image/NASA/SDO The sun recently lost a huge filament of solar plasma from its surface. The broken filament is circling its north pole like a vortex of…
Watch Water Studying Satellite Unfold in Space
Watch Water Studying Satellite Unfold in Space, Image/NASA/JPL-Caltech The U.S.-European Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite was recently launched into space. After deploying its solar arrays while in Earth orbit, the satellite’s…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Sun Smiling
Smiling Sun, courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams According to one of NASA’s Twitter sites, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recently caught the Sun “smiling.” Viewed in ultraviolet light…