This month’s #HelioBigYear theme is visual art ☀️ 🎨

Have you ever made Sun prints? They’re a simple way to create art that is not just inspired by but actually *uses* the Sun!
Learn how ⬇️

Solar Orbiter “sees” and “feels” the Sun at the same time, capturing close-up solar imagery while sampling the solar wind.

In this new paper, researchers use both abilities, linking specific textures in the solar wind to their origins on the solar surface. 👇

NASA’s IMAP mission takes a HIT! 💥
(In a good way!)

The HIT instrument is now being installed onto the spacecraft, and you can watch in real time.

Find out how: go.nasa.gov/4bAnaFS

Did you snap a pic of the aurora during the recent solar storms? Want to share it and help NASA Citizen Science?

It’s not too late to share your photos and contribute to Aurorasaurus’s research!

Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4dLErNH

📸 credit: NASA/Mara Johnson-Groh

Ideal attire for those chilly aurora-chasing nights ❄️

Check out Aurorasaurus’s blog to learn how to make your very own aurora altitudes hat!

A celebration of open-source software kicked off this week at the Python in Heliophysics Community Summer School!

You can watch virtually to learn how the Python programming language is at the forefront of innovation in heliophysics data analysis.

More: go.nasa.gov/3V7FbFM

X-class! 💥

The Sun has put on a real show for us! Here’s a roundup of the X-class flares we saw in the past week, including the strongest flare of this solar cycle, as seen by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.