Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured the moon ...

A solar eclipse on April 27, 2025, as seen only by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory. When is the next solar eclipse? Yesterday and today — but they were not reported in advance. Why? They were only in ...

On July 25, 2025, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured a rare solar eclipse from its vantage point in space. This unique phenomenon, visible only from the SDO’s position, revealed around ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A haunting grin appeared on the sun as bright active regions and dark coronal holes combined to ...

An Earth-orbiting spacecraft just experienced an unusual phenomenon: a lunar transit and an Earth eclipse on the same day. On July 25, at different times, both the moon and Earth passed between NASA's ...

NASA captured an image of an intense solar flare released by the sun on Tuesday evening. The solar flare peaked at 5:49 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory said. It was an X-class ...

The photo, taken by SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, shows glowing eyes, a bright nose, and one wide, dark "mouth"—a coronal hole where magnetic fields open and allow solar wind to stream freely ...