The satellite imagery below, served up by UW-Madison AOS Department, originates from NOAA's GOES-15 satellite. Visible and infrared images are shown. Click refresh at any time to update the images.

Near real-time preliminary data from NOAA's first Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), a powerful solar telescope onboard the ...

A space-based telescope has captured new images of the sun that showcase one of our star's fiery outbursts. The fresh visuals come courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

You’d be forgiven for thinking that receiving data transmissions from orbiting satellites requires a complex array of hardware and software, because for a long time it did. These days we have ...

Several times a day, a NOAA weather satellite passes over your head, beaming down pictures of weather systems and cloud formations. These transmissions aren’t encrypted, and given the requisite ...