Today at 8:50 am ET (1350 UTC) the distance between the Earth and Sun was the smallest it will be this year (perihelion). On July 4, 2020, w...

Here is the 100,000,000th image seen by HMI! It was snapped yesterday (March 8) at 0453 UTC (11:53 pm ET on March 7). Unlike the 100,000,000...

That is a tough one. Here is one surprising discovery for each of the instruments. AIA: AIA observed a comet travel through the sun’s cor...

HMI (Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager) The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager extends the capabilities of the SOHO/MDI instrument wi...

SDO is watching as a trio of large sunspots begins to rotate out of view (June 18-19, 2012) after spewing out numerous solar flares and c...

The HMI instrument onboard SDO uses Helioseismology to look at "sunquakes" to determine some of the physical properties and motion...

At this time we are not receiving images from AIA. The data is flowing from SDO to the JSOC, but the ground software is not creating the AIA...

At this time we are not receiving images from AIA and HMI. The data is flowing from SDO to the JSOC, but the ground software is not creating...

We are now including the HMI Dopplergrams and intensitygrams in the Sun Now section. Intensitygrams are images of the Sun in the red part of...

We have added a new composite image to "The Sun Now" page . This composite image consists of the latest AIA 171 and the latest HM...

Now that the AIA and HMI data are flowing through the data system, you can look at images of the Sun and make movies of the Sun. Check out t...

We have started a beta version of an SDO movie browser. It allows you to look at movies and still images of the AIA 15-minute cadence data...