It is hard to believe we are in solar maximum when todays' sunspot number is 13 or 14. In this HMI continuum image we can see a tiny act...

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...

SDO was featured in a video on NPR's Science Friday website ( www.ScienceFriday.com ). We described the Sun's magnetic field, the ri...