270 reactions · 71 shares | ESA & NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory launched to space 24 years ago today!  Explore SOHO's decades of solar science: nasa.gov/soho | NASA Space Alerts | Facebook

306K views · 2.9K reactions | The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3, 2017. Our Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images of the three events. Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/2oQVFju Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/b0avDc48hPM | NASA Space Alerts | Facebook

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory released breathtaking close-up footage of solar flares, revealing the Sun as a complex network of blazing plasma loops and turbulent magnetic fields. The new video captures dark filaments cutting across bright, twisting arcs as massive bursts of energy erupt and constantly reshape in real time. To appreciate the scale: the Sun spans about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter, roughly 109 times the size of Earth. What may appear as tiny sparks in the footage are a