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Created for the OAE This image shows multiple features related to ice halos, which are a more common appearance around the sun, due to its brightness, than the moon.
Credit: Thomas Gigl/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
H-alpha image of the Sun's chromosphere
Credit: Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO)/New Jersey Institut of Technology (NJIT) License: Public Domain icons
High-resolution image of the surface of the Sun
Credit: NSO/NSF/AURA License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Total Solar Eclipse pictured from Bangladesh
Credit: Lutfar Rahman Nirjhar License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported icons
Sunspots
Credit: NASA/SDO/HMI License: Public Domain icons
A mid-level solar flare observed by the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO)
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The Office of Astronomy for Education is hosted by the Haus der Astronomie on the campus of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. The Office of Astronomy for Education is an office of the International Astronomical Union, with substantial funding from the Klaus Tschira Foundation and the Carl Zeiss Foundation. The Shaw-IAU Workshops on Astronomy for Education
are funded by the Shaw Prize Foundation.

Created for the OAE This image shows multiple features related to ice halos, which are a more common appearance around the sun, due to its brightness, than the moon.

H-alpha image of the Sun's chromosphere

High-resolution image of the surface of the Sun

Total Solar Eclipse pictured from Bangladesh

Sunspots

A mid-level solar flare observed by the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO)