Category Archives: Solar Video

Here you can see the small dot which is Mercury passing in front of the sun

Watch the transit of Mercury across the face of the sun!!

You can watch the transit of Mercury across the face of the sun below. Compared to the size of the sun the planet is just a tiny speck…sort of what we…

X class Flare Oct 2014

Solar Video Shows Five X Class Flares in October 2014

This Video shows five X class solar  from Oct. 19-27, 2014 — This is the largest active region seen on the sun since 1990, including the five X-class flares that erupted…

Solar Flare

Video of Twisting M7.3 Solar Flare

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 3:01 p.m. EDT on Oct. 2, 2014. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun 24-hours a day, captured images of…

Unusual Square Coronal hole on the Sun – Video

An unusual coronal hole, almost square in its shape, was spotted on the sun (May 5-7, 2014). A coronal hole is an area where high-speed solar wind streams into space. It…

Solar Flare March 13 2014

Video of near X Class Solar Flare March 13, 2014

The Sun unleashed a M-9.3 flare, just short of an X class (the largest) from an active region right at the Sun’s edge (Mar. 12-13, 2014). The bright flash is…

Live pictures of the sun

January 2014 Video, A month in the life of the Sun

Video Credit: SDO, NASA; Digital Composition: Kevin Gill (Apoapsys) This video was compiled using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) during the month of January 2014. The large image on the left shows the…

Sun 12/12/13

Dark Plasma Burst From Sun – Video

  A dark clump of plasma rose up above the Sun, then twisted and spun about before it broke away and dissipated (Dec. 16-17, 2013). You can see the effect…

ISON appears

UPDATE – Comet ISON May have Survived! – Video

Reports of the demise of ISON may have bee pre-mature! When the comet did not reappear as expected NASA and the astronomical community thought it had evaporated after it;s close…