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What NASA is seeing right now.

A dashboard of genuinely live feeds — today's Earth, the Sun refreshed every few minutes by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and the aurora forecast. No login, just open and watch.

01 Earth today

Today's view of Earth

NASA GIBS · VIIRS true color

Open the full interactive map →

Pan, zoom, switch layers, jump to a story in Explore.

02 The Sun, live

Our star, a few minutes ago

SDO · refreshes ~15 min

AIA 193 Å

1.2M K corona

Hot corona and coronal holes — the source of fast solar wind.

AIA 304 Å

50K K chromosphere

Cooler chromosphere — prominences and filaments along the limb.

AIA 171 Å

600K K quiet corona

Magnetic loops arching over active regions.

HMI Continuum

visible surface

The photosphere — sunspots mark intense magnetic fields.

03 Space weather

Where the aurora is, right now

NOAA SWPC · OVATION model

Northern hemisphere · auroral oval probability

Southern hemisphere · auroral oval probability

Live from services.swpc.noaa.gov and sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov — refresh the page for the latest frames.