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The latest news from space-faring countries, agencies, industry and academia   ·   Saturday 25 May 2013, 3.54pm GMT   ·   Nº 1758

SDO and STEREO Spot Something New On the Sun

14 April 2012

Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., looked through the daily images of the sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). But on this day he saw something he’d never noticed before: a pattern of cells with bright centres and dark boundaries occurring in the sun’s atmosphere.







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