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Two disk views of the Sun. The left image shows the surface of the Sun, with only two sunspots (dark spots) visible on the far right side of the disk. The right disk shows the Sun's atmosphere, with the sunspots on the surface appearing on the right side of the right disk with small lighter-colored phages around them. Prominences (spots floating off the edges) of floating gas and filaments (dark lines) of floating gas are visible as well, mostly on the upper half of the disk.

The Sun - September 5, 2013

Two side-by-side disc views of the Sun. The first disc reveals the Sun's surface, lighlighting a couple of sunspots, indicated by black spots, on the right side of the disc. The second disc reveals lighter-colored areas around the sunspots called phages, and dark lines called filaments are visible across the top half of the disc.

The Sun - September 4, 2013

Telstar Satellite on Display in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall

Telstar

Disk view of the Sun's atmosphere. Several prominences, or red puffs of gases rising above the atmosphere of the Sun on the edge of the disk, are visible throughout the disk. Two sunspot clusters are visible with dark spots surrounded by lighter-colored phages on the bottom half of the disk.

The Sun - August 14, 2013

Three side-by-side disk views of the Sun. The left disk features sunspots visible through magnetic fields and they appear as dark spots surrounded by lighter spots called phages. The middle disk reveals the sunspots visible on the surface of the Sun. The right disk reveals the sunspots as dark spots surrounded by lighter-coloured phage clouds in the Sun's atmosphere. Prominences of gases floating off the edges of the disk are also visible.

The Sun in Three Colors - August 14, 2013

Eight people, who all are part of the 2013 NASA astronaut class, pose as a group.

2013 NASA Astronaut Class

Three disk views of the Sun. The left disk reveals sunspots (dark spots) and phages (light clouds surrounding the darkspots) visible in the Sun's atmosphere. The middle disk reveals the Sun's surface, with a few sunspots visible as dark spots. Similar to the left disk, the right disk reveals the Sun's atmosphere. Sunspots are visible as dark spots surrounded by lighter phage clouds, but prominences are also visible as gases float off the edges of the disk.

The Sun - July 29, 2013

Disk view of the Sun's atmosphere. Two sunspots are visible on the Sun with lighter-colored phages indicating their presence in the bottom right quadrant. A few prominences of red-colored floating gases are visible on the edges across the disk.

The Sun - July 26, 2013

A large group of people stand around an museum exhibit featuring spacesuits.

Suited for Space Social

Disk view of the Sun's atmosphere. A large sunspot group is visible in the upper right quadrant as a large dark spot surrounded by lighter-colored phages. Other phages, darker lines called filaments, and floating gases from the edge of the disk called filaments are visible primarily on the bottom half of the disk.

The Sun - July 21, 2013

Partial disk view of the Sun's atmosphere. A sunspot group of dark spots is visible in the center of the image and is surrounded by lighter-colored phages. Filaments (dark lines) and phages are also visible on the lower half of the disk.

The Sun - July 20, 2013

A view of Earth and its Moon from the orbit of Saturn.

View of Earth

Disk view of the Sun's atmosphere. A large sunspot (dark spot) cluster is visible on the left side of the disk surrounded by lighter-colored clouds called phages. Other phages are visible across the disk. A large, red-colored gas is floating off the top right of the Sun's visible surface and is called a prominence.

The Sun - July 19, 2013

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Astronaut Thomas Marshburn

July 18, 2013
Two images of the Sun showing the same space on the Sun, however the top image shows the surface of the Sun and the bottom image shows the atmosphere above the Sun's surface. On both images, a sunspot cluster can be seen as darker spots on the Sun. On the bottom image, however, phages, or clouds, in lighter colors are also visible near the darkest spots of the cluster.

A Large, Active Sunspot - July 7, 2013

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A close-up view of the cockpit windows of a space shuttle, highlighting the thermal protection tiles around the windows designed to withstand extreme temperatures during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

Space Shuttle Discovery