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Space Weather Images
Storms from the Sun have some very direct effects on our home.
Sun storms affect
us on Earth		 Filament release and post-flare loops on the Sun's surface. Image taken by the TRACE spacecraft.
Filaments on
surface of Sun		 Northern lights as seen from Ontario, Canada.
Northern lights
Image of a Coronal Mass Ejection on the Sun taken by the SOHO spacecraft. A small disk on the instrument blocks out the Sun itself so events in the Sun's atmosphere can be studied.
Coronal Mass Ejection		 The SOHO spacecraft records a Coronal Mass Ejection on the Sun. The noise on the last frame is from charged particles hitting the instrument.
Coronal Mass
Ejection series		 Our active Sun. Composite image from two instruments on the SOHO spacecraft.
Our active Sun
Material being ejected through the solar atmosphere from an active region nad post-flare loops following a solar event. Image taken by TRACE spacecraft.
Solar filaments
and loops		 Earth's magnetic field, or magnetosphere, protects us from most effects of solar storms and the solar wind.
Magnetosphere
protection
 Earth's magnetic field, or magnetosphere, protects us from the constant solar wind.
Magnetosphere
protection
All of planet Earth would fit into a sunspot! Solar image from TRACE satellite. Earth image from Apollo 17.
Earth compared
with a sunspot		 The Sun's hot out atmosphere, or corona, in X-rays. Image taken by the Soft X-ray Telescope on the Yohkoh satellite.
Sun's corona
in X-rays		 Map of ozone density in atmosphere of Earth's southern hemisphere (parts per million by volume). Data taken by the CLAES (Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer) instrument on the UARS (Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite).
Ozone density in
S. Hemisphere
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