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Here you can find links to astronomy telescopes through which you can look at the sky, stars, etc, together with information about the sun, sunspots/solar flares, and space weather:
Atlas of the Universe:
http://anzwers.org/free/universe/
A to Z of telescopes, and what each one does:
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb/solar.html
Satellites and Astronomy - information to observe satellites, including the Space Shuttle:
http://www.heavens-above.com/
Track any star, planet, or satellite orbit:
http://orbits.esa.int/orbits/science/app/solar.htm
List of solar observatories (useful if SOHO is not operating):
Daily SOHO images:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html
Australian Space Weather with Solar Images link:
http://www.ips.oz.au/Main.php?CatID=5
Solar Terrestrial Activity Report - includes Solar and geomagnetic data:
http://www.dxlc.com/solar/
Big Bear Solar Observatory:
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/cgi-bin/LatestImages
GLOBAL Hi-Resolution H-ALPHA NETWORK:
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/Research/Halpha/index.html
Kitt Peak National Solar Observatory:
http://synoptic.nso.edu/
Mauna Loa Solar Observatory:
http://mlso.hao.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/mlso_homepage.cgi
San Fernando Observatory:
http://www.csun.edu/sfo/dailyim.cgi
Yohkoh Telescope site:
http://www.lmsal.com/YPOP/ProjectionRoom/latest_SXT.html
List of ground-based solar observatories that give information about the Sun:
http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~kreardon/EGSO/gbo/
Information about the Sun from various Observatories:
http://www.n3kl.org/
Tool that calls itself an internet-accessible robotic solar telescope:
http://eyes-on-the-skies.org/
The following are some of the spacecraft that have done, or are doing, research into the Sun. An Internet search should find the relevant links: ACE; RHESSI; TRACE; Cluster; GOES-9; GOES-10; GOES-12; IMP-8; Geotail; POLAR; Ulysses; WIND.
Science news/information about the Sun/Earth environment – including current data:
http://www.spaceweather.com/
Scientists forecast record sunspot cycle - next time stronger by 30% to 50%. Known as Cycle 24, probably reach peak about 2012 (March 2006):
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/nsf-siu030606.php
But at the time of writing, the middle of June 2008, it hasn't so far happened!
Scientists conclude that sunspots have been more active over the last 70 years than at any time in the previous 8,000 years (October 2004):
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996591
New analysis shows sunspots are higher than at any time in the past 1,000 years (July 2004):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3869753.stm
Massive solar flare (not earth directed) data shows it was an X45 rating - making it twice as large as any flare previously documented (November 2003):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3515788.stm
List of the large, record setting, solar flares since 1978:
http://www.spaceweather.com/solarflares/topflares.html
Sundogs, also known as mock suns - these often show up in photos and are then mistaken for 'extra' planets etc:
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/opt/ice/sd.rxml
UK’s University of Edinburgh study suggests that stars are not where the scientists believe them to be but may be ‘off’ by millions of miles (February 2005):
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=164332005
Northern Star, Polaris, getting brighter by 250% and they have no idea why (May 2004):
http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v36n2/aas204/617.htm
Report that the speed of light may be slowing down – could call into question the age of the universe and, possibly, the theory of evolution (July 2004):
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39733
Scientists publish the results that the Universe is one billion years older than believed (May 2004):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3732157.stm
Science team suggest a new theory of how the Universe evolved - the hypothesis has implications for the Cosmological Constant, and proposes that time began before the Big Bang, implying a pre-existing Universe, with the current one being far older than currently believed (May 2006):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4974134.stm
Astronomers from Australia and the USA, using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, see very dim, very old, outer areas of the galaxy known as NGC 300. Data shows that the galaxy is twice as large as believed - suggesting that our galaxy may be far larger than thought (August 2005):
http://www.physorg.com/news5730.htm