Sunrise, seen from the ISS. Beautiful!
Image: NASA
Beautiful Sun
April 22, 2010 By
First results from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory are in! In dynamic fashion, NASA have released a bunch of movies on YouTube of the satellite’s first observations, as well as great images. Enjoy.
Beautiful sun with the coronal mass ejection of 8 April 2010.
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APOD: Earth's changing distance to the Sun
July 4, 2009 By
Today, the 4th of July, the Earth’s elliptical orbit takes our planet to its farthest point from the Sun (‘aphelion‘). This composite image demonstrates nicely how this causes the Sun to appear just a tad smaller in the sky compared with the perihelion size, at the closest approach.
Image credit: E.L. Cervigon
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