7 stunning Nasa images of the Sun you need to see
Jul 21, 2025
Credit: Nasa
This image from June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT shows the bright light of a solar flare on the left side of the Sun and an eruption of solar material shooting through the Sun's atmosphere, called a prominence eruption.
This animation shows five views of the Sun captured by European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter.
The Sun blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period (Feb. 24, 2015). While some of the strands fell back into the Sun, a substantial part raced into space.
This illustration lays a depiction of the sun's magnetic fields over an image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on March 12, 2016. The complex overlay of lines can teach scientists about the ways the sun's magnetism changes.
On May 9, 2016, Mercury passed directly between the Sun and Earth, making a transit of the Sun. Mercury transits happen about 13 times each century.
A very long solar filament that had been snaking around the Sun erupted (Dec. 6, 2010) with a flourish. It had been almost a million km long (about half a solar radius) and a prominent feature on the Sun visible over two weeks.
NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, constantly observes the outer regions of the Sun's corona using a coronagraph, which blocks the bright solar disk.
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