PICK OF THE WEEK: Long, Cool Filament
This SOHO image of an elongated filament, taken in extreme UV light, shows a cooler (and thus darker) string of gases hovering above the Sun's surface...
Archive for the ‘SOHO’ Category
PICK OF THE WEEK: Prominence Lift-Off
STEREO (Ahead) kept a steady eye on a narrow portion of a solar prominence that rose up, wavered, and finally broke away from the
Sun...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Ring of “Fire”
An almost perfectly circular coronal mass ejection (CME) blew out from the
Sun as seen in this video clip covering 36 hours...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Storm Surge
SOHO observed a series of coronal mass ejections blasted out from the Sun over a 6-day period...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Nary a TRACE to be found
The stalwart and accomplished TRACE Small Explorer (SMEX) mission is
ending its operations...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Popping Out All Over
As the STEREO (Behind) spacecraft observed in extreme UV light, the Sun
popped off no fewer than six eruptions over just two days...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Slithering Plasma
One has to watch closely as strands of plasma dart and twist near an
active region for a day...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Streaking Comet (February 27, 2009)
The two coronagraphs on the SOHO spacecraft watched as a sun-grazing comet headed right towards the
Sun and disappeared, almost certainly burnt up by the Sun's radiation...
PICK OF THE WEEK: SOHO shows its colors (March 13, 2008)
All of the SOHO's images of the Sun in this colorful arrangement
were taken about the same time on March 10, 2009. Each shows the Sun in different
wavelengths of light to reveal...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Infrequent Solar Blast (March 20, 2009)
SOHO observed a solar storm blast off to the left of the Sun (Mar. 17-19,
2009) over a two-day period. It appears to have originated on the far side of the Sun. In
general, these coronal mass ejection (CME) explosions...
NASA’s 2009 Mission Madness Tournament
You can participate by working out a bracket similar to those
used in the NCAA Basketball Tournament, except it uses missions instead of teams...
