The Solar Viewer widget allows you to see today's images of the Sun on your computer desktop.  Details such as sunspots and solar flares can be seen from these compelling pictures of the Sun. These near realtime images come from NASA/ESA's SOHO missions, NASA TRACE satellite, and the Big Bear Observatory. A Mac OS X dashboard widget was designed and developed along with a Yahoo! Widget that works with both Mac and PC.

The Yahoo! widget (along with an earlier prototype) developed early in 2006 has received over 80,000 downloads combined. The widget is based on the Sun-Earth Connection Media Viewer, a Flash-based interactive application developed with NASA in 2004.