NASA, Thermonuclear Art The Sun In Ultra HD (4 K)
Its always shining, always ablaze with light and energy that drive weather, biology and more. In addition to keeping life alive on Earth, the sun also sends out a constant flow of particles called the solar wind, and it occasionally erupts with giant clouds of solar material, called coronal mass ejections, or explosions of Xrays called solar flares. These events can rattle our space environment out to the very edges of our solar system. In space, NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, keeps an eye on
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