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Video: Massive Blasts of Plasma Swirl on Sun’s Surface | Wired Science | Wired.com
A new video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows huge blasts of plasma, called solar prominences, curling around the sun’s tumultuous magnetic field. The remarkable activity was captured Nov. 14 to 15 using a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. For legal reasons it should be noted that only NASA is allowed to look directly at the sun
If you were an astronaut, this could be the view each day from your office window.
Incredible Time-Lapse Video Gives an Astronaut’s View of Earth | Wired Science | Wired.com
Scientists have generated the largest and most realistic simulations of the evolving universe to date with the aid of NASA's powerful supercomputer, dubbed Pleiades.
NASA Supercomputer Simulates Early Evolution of Universe | NASA Supercomputers & Universe Structure, History & Evolution | Big Bang, Dark Matter & Astronomy | Space.com
Astronaut Video Shows Spectacular Auroras From Space | International Space Station | Northern Lights, Southern Lights & Auroras | Space.com
Stunning NASA videos are giving an astronaut's-eye view of spectacular aurora displays in the Southern Hemisphere.Video Show: A Blueprint of the Universe | Big Bang, Universe Creation & Evolution | History & Future of the Cosmos | Space.com
The universe is a big place, near-infintely big, but there's a structure to our cosmos that astronomers are hard at work unraveling. Take a tour of some of the out-of-this-world structures that make our universe tick in this video show, "A Blueprint for the Universe," the first stop in SPACE.com's eight-weekday series to look at our universe's mysteries entitiled: The History & Future of the Cosmos .
Over Earth: Day & Night from ISS | Space.com
Share Highlights from recent space station fly-overs of Earth includes the Western United States, Mediterranean, Sahara Desert, Red Sea, Balkans, Southeast Asia and Malaysia.The spectacular pink and red core of a lively nebula takes center stage in a new photo that exposes the stellar nursery's eye-catching clouds of gas, dust and newborn stars. The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, captured the new image of the Omega Nebula.
Smoky Nebula's Bright Pink Heart Shines in New Photo | Omega Nebula & Star Formation | ESO Images & Very Large Telescope | Space.com
Titan's Surprisingly Earth-like Surface Revealed - in Color | Space.com
Share Peaking under the thick atmosphere using Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, an international team has composed a global color map of Titan. This mosaic was compiled from imagery taken over seventy flybys of Saturn's largest moon.
Share Expedition 29 crew demonstrate what happens to free floating objects (including people) when ISS is boosted into a higher orbit. Astronauts Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov – plus one ball – subject themselves to Sir Isaac's whims.