The Northern Lights – Aurora Borealis
ESA makes the Sun available to everyone
Hinode/XRT Education & Public Outreach DVD
Stanford Solar Center – Our Solar System
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The Transit of Venus 2012
This article was provided by Lee Macdonald. On Wednesday 6 June 2012 the planet Venus will make a rare passage in front of the Sun as seen from Earth…. Read More »
The Northern Lights – Aurora Borealis
This photo of the aurora was taken in Kvaløya close to Tromsø, Norway, by Bjørn Jørgensen. January 2012 provided a spectacular display of lights (aurorae) in the northern skies. Northern lights… Read More »
The Sun Today
The Sun Today facebooksite (http://www.facebook.com/thesuntoday) is full of interesting facts and figures about the Sun. It is produced by a young,dynamic duo: C. Alex Young and Ryan Milligan…. Read More »
Our Explosive Sun
Our Explosive Sun - A Visual Feast of Our Source of Light and Life by Pål Brekke A new popular science book about the Sun written by Pål Brekke has… Read More »
SmartPhone Application
SolarMonitor.org – SmartPhone Application Peter Gallagher 15 Dec 2011 Peter Gallagher Trinity College Dublin computer scientists and solar physicists have partnered to produce a web app that allows… Read More »
Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO
(This post was provided by Caroline Alexander, UCLan, UK) SDO Mission Overview The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a satellite that was launched into orbit in February 2010. SDO is… Read More »
ESA makes the Sun available to everyone
New software developed by ESA makes available online to everyone, everywhere at anytime, the entire library of images from the SOHO solar and heliospheric observatory. JHelioviewer is new… Read More »
Hinode/XRT Education & Public Outreach DVD
The Hinode/XRT Team has put together a DVD called the XRT Education & Public Outreach DVD. This contains information on space science careers and building Hinode XRT, a space X-ray telescope…. Read More »
Stanford Solar Center – Our Solar System
The Stanford Solar Center has produced a booklet for schools about the solar system. They have given us permission to make this available to UK schools through Sun|trek…. Read More »
The Sun gets active with X-class solar flares
September 2011 was an active month for the Sun. Active region number AR1302 unleashed two X-class flares as it appeared on the disk of the Sun, and seemed to be ready… Read More »
