... Explanation: Almost out of view from our fair planet , rotating around the Sun's western edge, giant sunspot region AR 10486 lashed out with another intense solar flare followed by a large coronal mass ejection (CME) on Tuesday, November 4th at about 1950 ...
... Each group, roughly the size of Jupiter , is unusual not only for its size but because it is appearing over three years after solar maximum , the peak of solar surface activity. ...
... Four X-class Flares . Image Credit: NASA , Solar Dynamics Observatory, GSFC . ... has produced the first four X-class solar flares of 2013 in less than 48 hours ... four were captured in extreme ultraviolet images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory ...
... Sunspot Group AR 2192 Crackles . Image Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory , NASA . ... 2192 , it has already thrown a powerful solar flare and has the potential to produce ...
... 2011 December 6 . Jupiter Rotation Movie from Pic du Midi . Image Credit Copyright: S2P / IMCCE / OPM / JL Dauvergne et al. ... Explanation: Observe the graceful twirl of the Solar System's largest planet. ...
... 2007 May 14 . Rotating Earth from Galileo . Credit: NASA , JPL , Doug Ellison . ... for the robotic Galileo spacecraft that soundlessly coasted past the Solar System's most photographed orb almost two decades ...
... 2006 February 15 . Rotating Titan in Infrared Light . Credit: VIMS Team , U. Arizona , ESA , NASA . ... Credit: VIMS Team , U. Arizona , ESA , NASA . Explanation: Titan is one of the strangest places in our Solar System . ...
... Appendix 1c: Solar System Data 3 . Miscellaneous Data. ... in kilometers per second Axial incl Inclination of the rotation axis in degrees (obliquity) Oblate Oblateness Ascend Longitude ...
... It was also known that the center of the Sun rotates faster than the poles. ... Now, recent measurements by the Solar Oscillations Investigations group of the SOHO Observatory have found that the surface of ...
... Large patches of the Sun vibrate in and out, back and forth, even as the Sun rotates . ... One mode of Solar oscillation is depicted graphically above , with blue indicating outward motion, and red indicating inward ...