1 SOLAR PROMINENCE
Date taken: 2012
Taken by: The Solar Dynamics Observatory
If you take a brief glimpse of the Sun through thin clouds, all you’ll see is a white disc, perhaps with a few small, dark sunspots spattered across it. But the filtered cameras of solar observatories orbiting Earth show the Sun is a very active, very dynamic object. This image taken by the SDO shows a prominence, a huge loop of plasma, erupting up off the Sun’s surface and billowing out millions of miles into space.
2 URANUS WITH BACKGROUND GALAXIES
Date taken: 2023
Taken by: The James Webb Space Telescope
Although it has been photographed by Hubble for almost 40 years, the most impressive images we have of Uranus are still those taken by the Voyager 2 probe as it raced past the planet in January 1986, just two days before the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after liftoff. But in 2023 the James Webb Space Telescope took this stunning new view of this distant ice
