Planetary Transits. Sun Rise & Set Calculators. Moon - Sun Interaction. Current Position of the Sun. Space Weather. Index of /ftpdir/indices/old_indices. Solar images at SDAC. Click on any of the following thumbnail images for the most recent, full-resolution solar image of each type in the SDAC archive. The time and date of each image is below the image description. All times are in coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) A Note on Color Tables The color tables used to display AIA images here are the ones used to display similar bandpasses for SOHO EIT and STEREO EUVI images. Color tables for the 94, 131, and 335 Å bandpasses are still under development.
Images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) Images from other sources Return to the home page for the SDAC. SRS. SDO | Solar Dynamics Observatory. How the Sun Works" When’s the last time you gazed upward and marveled at the mysterious, life-giving force that is the sun? If you believe the whole staring-at-the-sun-makes-you-go-blind thing (which is actually true), you’re probably not doing a whole lot of sun-gazing.
But it’s a real marvel: The sun warms our planet every day, provides the light by which we see and is necessary for life on Earth. It can also cause cell death and make us blind. It could fit 1.3 million Earths inside its sphere [source: SpaceDaily]. It produces poem-worthy sunsets and as much energy as 1 trillion megaton bombs every second [source: Boston Globe]. All of this, and our sun is just a plain old average star, by universal standards. So, how close is the sun? If the sun is in the vacuum of space, how does it burn? In this article, we'll examine the fascinating world of our nearest star. The sun has "burned" for more than 4.5 billion years.
We say the sun burns, but it doesn’t burn like wood burns. Sun. Handle on the Sun. Sun. Sun_poster. Sun: Rise, set times, solar eclipse dates, sun facts.