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The sun emitted a significant solar flare which is classified as an X1.1-class flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength.

The sun emitted a significant solar flare which is classified as an X1.1-class flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength.

THE MARS PANORAMAS - Updated July 11 2012 Interactive panoramas from the Mars 1997 Pathfinder Mission, MER 2004 Missions Spirit and Opportunity Click on the Thumbnails below to view the interactive QuickTime Virtual Reality Panoramas in fullscreen."

Cosmos Portal  is a gateway on the Web to astronomy and space science. We invite astronomy professionals to publish articles, blogs, news items, image galleries, videos, class notes, lectures, powerpoint presentations, links to other high quality websites or other educational material. 

Located at New Mexico Skies and CTIO, Star Shadows Remote Observatory (SSRO) is a cooperative astro-imaging venture operated by Lewis Garrett, Jacob Gerritsen, Rick Gilbert,  Jack Harvey, Steve Mazlin, Michael Smith, Teri Smoot, and Daniel Verschatse.

HubbleTelescope- Images from the Hubble Space Telescope

A northern lights forecast map with current and historical Flickr images. Forecast is based on Kp index and Bz

he NASA Star and Exoplanet Database (NStED) collects and serves public data to support the search for and characterization of extra-solar planets (exoplanets) and their host stars. The data include published light curves, images, spectra and parameters, and time-series data from surveys that aim to discover transiting exoplanets. All data are validated by the NStED science staff and traced to their sources. NStED is the U.S. data portal for the CoRoT mission.

Get the latest outer space and science news, NASA information, watch space flight videos at Space.com. View exclusive solar system Images, latest astronomy news and more.

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 8:13 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2015. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.

The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, no less). In order to understand how these galaxies - and our own - formed, we need your help to classify them according to their shapes - a task at which your brain is better than even the fastest computer.

Now, new images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are shedding light on the true structure of the Milky Way, revealing that it has just two major arms of stars instead of the four it was previously thought to possess.

Infrared photos of a few extrasolar planets. Don't expect much - you just see points of light - but they've been imaged in Infrared light.

This new guide for astronomers, known as the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL) shows the Milky Way in submillimetre-wavelength light (between infrared light and radio waves [1]). Images of the cosmos at these wavelengths are vital for studying the birthplaces of new stars and the structure of the crowded galactic core.

We have built this astrometric calibration service to create correct, standards-compliant astrometric meta-data for every useful astronomical image ever taken, past and future, in any state of archival disarray. We hope this will help organize, annotate and make searchable all the world's astronomical information.

Report on the amount of space debris/garbage orbiting Earth. Report from 2009.