Sunspots

General
Ames Research Center
Heliophysics
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
Sunspots
The Sun
NASA supercomputers are shedding light on what causes some of the Sun’s most complex behaviors.
Posted November 21, 2024
Ames Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph)
MUSE (Multi-slit Solar Explorer)
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Sunspots
The Sun
Did you know the Sun has moss? Due to its resemblance to the earthly plants, scientists have named a small-scale, bright, patchy structure made of plasma in the solar atmosphere “moss.” This moss, which was first identified in 1999 by NASA’s TRACE mission, blossoms around the center of a sunspot group, where magnetic conditions are […]
Posted April 16, 2024
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Missions
Science & Research
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
Stars
Sunspots
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Solar System
The Sun
The Universe
Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages of stars. Once a star like our Sun has settled into steady nuclear fusion, or the mature phase of its life, it changes little for billions of years. One exception to that rule is the […]
Posted April 4, 2024
Auroras
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Sunspots
The Sun
Uncategorized
A NASA-funded team of scientists has discovered long-lasting radio signals emanating from the Sun that are similar to those associated with auroras – northern and southern lights – on Earth. Detected about 25,000 miles (40,000 km) above a sunspot – a relatively cool, dark, and magnetically active region on the Sun – such radio bursts […]
Posted March 13, 2024
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