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Solar Imagery

Solar Imagery MCP Connector for Claude

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Live images of the Sun from NASA's SDO and SOHO — every AIA wavelength, the HMI magnetogram, and the LASCO coronagraphs that watch for coronal mass ejections, keyless.

4 tools Official Updated Oct 1, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner
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Connect any AI agent to NASA's solar telescopes — the live frames that space-weather forecasters actually look at. No key required.

What you can do

  • See the Sun in ten wavelengths — each AIA channel photographs the solar atmosphere at a different temperature, from the 6,000-degree surface to the 10-million-degree flare plasma
  • Read the magnetic field — the HMI magnetogram shows sunspot groups as black-and-white polarity pairs, and the intensitygram shows sunspots as the eye would
  • Watch for coronal mass ejections — the 193 Å running-difference frame highlights anything that erupted between scans, and the LASCO C2/C3 coronagraphs photograph the CME itself out to 30 solar radii
  • Match a phenomenon to the right product — say "sunspots" or "coronal hole" and get the product that shows it, with the reason
  • Know whether a frame is live — capture time and file size come from the file itself, and a frame older than a day is flagged stale

Why it matters

Space weather starts on the Sun. A flare in 94 Å and a CME in LASCO C3 are the two observations that precede a geomagnetic storm — and a C3 frame filling with a bright expanding cloud is the signature of a storm Earth-directed.

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4 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

get_solar_image

A frame older than a day is flagged stale — SDO pauses for manoeuvres and lunar transits, so try another wavelength or the coronagraphs. Get a live image of the Sun — a stable NASA archive URL plus capture time, file size and whether the frame is fresh, for any AIA wavelength, HMI product, composite or LASCO coronagraph

list_solar_image_products

Optionally narrow to one instrument: AIA, HMI or LASCO. List the solar image products one imager publishes — every AIA wavelength, the HMI continuum and magnetogram, the composites, and the LASCO coronagraphs — with what each one reveals

list_solar_instruments

AIA photographs the solar atmosphere in ten extreme-ultraviolet wavelengths that each show a different temperature; HMI maps the visible surface and magnetic field; LASCO occults the disc to photograph coronal mass ejections. All keyless, all live. List the solar imagers this API serves — SDO's AIA and HMI, and SOHO's LASCO coronagraphs — with what each one observes and how many products it publishes

find_solar_product_for

Returns the best product plus alternates that show the same thing; pass the id to get_solar_image for the frame. For an Earth-directed CME the answer is the LASCO C3 coronagraph. Pick the solar image product that shows a phenomenon — sunspots, a flare, a coronal mass ejection, a coronal hole, a filament, the magnetic field — with the reason it fits

See how to talk to your AI agent using Solar Imagery.

Show me what the Sun looks like right now.

The SDO HMI intensitygram, captured about 10 minutes ago — the solar disc in white light with sunspot groups visible as dark patches: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_1024_HMII.jpg. For the corona and any eruptions, the AIA 171 Å frame shows coronal loops and the LASCO C3 coronagraph watches for Earth-directed CMEs.

Is there a coronal mass ejection heading our way?

The product to check is the LASCO C3 coronagraph, which occults the solar disc and photographs the outer corona out to 30 solar radii: https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/1024/latest.jpg. A bright expanding cloud filling that frame is the signature of an Earth-directed CME — pair it with the AIA 193 Å running-difference frame, which highlights material that left the disc between scans.

Where do I look for sunspots?

The HMI intensitygram — the only product here that photographs the Sun in visible light, so sunspots appear as dark patches on the disc: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_1024_HMII.jpg, a 1024 px frame refreshed about every 15 minutes. To see the magnetism behind them, the HMI magnetogram (latest_1024_HMIB.jpg) shows the same groups as black-and-white polarity pairs — that is how active regions are numbered and tracked.

No. This reads NASA's public SDO and SOHO image archives, which require no key or account.

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