🌞 🌚 🌎 The ESA/NASA SOHO mission observed its 5000th comet ☄️ - found by a member of the public through the @SungrazerComets project! The instrument used was LASCO, which creates an artificial eclipse in space! Dr. Karl Battams leads the project. 🥳 👏 https://go.nasa.gov/4cwGWmu | The Sun Today: Solar Facts and Space Weather

X8-class Solar Flare Detected | NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory FriendsofNASA.org | Full-size images: https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/02/x8-class-solar-flare-detected-nasas.html This image is an extreme ultraviolet view of the Sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It shows the bright flash of a X8-class solar flare on the Sun’s upper left side. The rest of the surface is mottled with darker and lighter regions, and faint loops of solar material can be seen extending off the Sun’

X9.0 Solar Flare • Strongest Flare of Solar Cycle 25 G3 (STRONG) Watches in Effect for 4-6 October with Two CMEs in Route 4.10.24 IMAGES: LASCO coronagraph imagery following the X9 solar flare shows a halo CME along with multiple unrelated eruptions. Solar wind speed: 385.0 km/sec [LASCO/NASA] • Two CMEs are now heading for Earth following consecutive X-flares (X7.1 and X9.1) from active sunspot AR3842. According to NOAA and NASA models, the first will strike Earth on Oct 4th and the second (mor