Most of the graphics used on this web site were constructed from actual spacecraft images.
The navigation bar was constructed from an image taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) onboard the SOHO spacecraft. Courtesy NASA.
The top banner and separator bars were constructed using images from another SOHO instrument, the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO). There is also a movie of this event, which included two comets plunging into the sun. Courtesy NASA.
The Space Weather Center logo includes an image taken by the Spin-Scan Auroral Imaging (SAI) instrument on board Dynamics Explorer - 1. Courtesy L. Frank, the University of Iowa, and NASA.
Finally, the auroral image on the home page is copyright Jan Curtis