Return to Sun Topics
Click here to Return to the Main Menu

Coronal Features 1-10
Solar Maximum
Astronomers recently witnessed a large scale solar event as the Sun's north and south magnetic poles changed places.
12-02-2001 
Solar Minimum
Every 11 years the sun undergoes a period of activity called the "solar maximum", followed by a period of quiet called the "solar minimum".
23-12-1996
SOHO recovery EUV image
...shows bright active regions and lofty prominences above the solar limb.
13-10-1998
Equinox and Eruptive Prominence
In September , the Sun crosses the celestial equator and seasons change...
15-09-1999
Twin coronal mass ejections
...two enormous clouds of energetic particles blasted away from the solar surface...
2-05-2002 
Sun Storm
An erupting filament lifts off the active solar surface and blasts an enormous bubble of magnetic plasma into space.
27-02-2000
Comet and Venus against solar corona
The picture shows streamers of solar wind billowing radially outward for millions of kilometers...
8/01/2002 
Two Sungrazer Comets
In a rare celestial spectacle, two comets have been observed plunging into the Sun's atmosphere...
1-06-2002
Comet enters equatorial solar wind region
The comet is seen as its coma enters the bright equatorial solar wind region.
23-12-1996
Coronal Hole
This ominous, dark shape sprawling across the face of the active Sun is a coronal hole...
8-01-2002