This page provides an array of real-time images and data for the sun and solar wind. There are also lots of links to additional solar and space weather resources. See the Aurora & Meteors page for real-time info on the Northern and Southern Lights, which are directly influenced by solar activity.
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The Sun as seen by the SOHO spacecraft (Find more info in About the Very Latest SOHO Images):
Sunspots are visible with the SOHO Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI)
in a continuum of wavelengths near the Ni I 6768 Angstrom line.
Sunspots are also sharply visible in this magnetogramtaken with the MDI (Michelson Doppler Imager).
“The magnetogram image shows the magnetic field in the solar photosphere,
with black and white indicating opposite polarities.”
Taken with the EIT (SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope )at the 195 Angstrom wavelength, which corresponds to
the 1.5 million Kelvin temperature.
Taken with the EIT (SOHO Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope )
at wavelength 304 Angstrom emitted from materials
in 60,000 to 80,000 degrees Kelvin range.
The LASCO (Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph) blocks outlight from the sun’s disk and thus allows imaging of the corona and
up to 8.4 million kilometers (5.25 million miles) away from the Sun.“
C3 covers a diameter of about 45 million kilometers (or30 million miles) .
This represents 32 diameters of the Sun.
Phoebe Waterman Haas Public Observatory
[The observatory channel is offline during the current
“period of revitalization and transformation.
While we transform, we are closed to the public.“]
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Solar Wind:
Sunspots and the solar cycle:
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Resources:
- General Solar/Space Weather:
- SpaceWeather.com – daily news on solar and space weather developments.
- SolarWeatherLive.com
- Space Weather Canada
- Current Space Weather – real-time graphs and data
- Space weather data and plots
- Solar Page | Watts Up With That? – big collection of solar images and data displays
- NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
- World Data Center (WDC) for Geomagnetism, Kyoto
- Solar Images/Data:
- Very latest SOHO images
- About the Very Latest SOHO Images
- Soho image cross fader – Interactive selection of SOHO images.
- Joint Science Operations Center HMI-AIA –
- The Sun Now – ESA
- GOES Solar X-ray imager
- NASA Science: The Sun – News, images and data about NASA solar and space weather research
- The Sun Today: Directory to the Latest Solar Images and Interplanetary Data – Berkeley – many images of the sun in visible light, UV, X-Ray, and other wavelengths.
- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO): Reopening in April 2026 after long closure due to volcanic activity nearby.
- NASA Heliophysics
- www.SolarMonitor.org
- Very latest SOHO images
- Solar Wind:
- Sunspots/Solar Cycle:
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This older web page displays real time solar and space weather imagery and data you can select from a menu of online sites:
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