New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas called ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is an incredible piece of equipment that is helping researchers to get a better look than ever before of our sun. Recently, high-resolution observations have been ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission captured detailed images of solar coronal mass ejections, tracking their movement from the Sun’s corona ...

We got our first look at images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which will forever change how we monitor the night sky.

A high-resolution image of the flare from the Inouye Solar Telescope, taken on August 8, 2024, at 20:12 UT. The image is about 4 Earth-diameters on each side.

This view is just part of a new, high-resolution image of the sun's full surface captured by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Screenshot. ESA & NASA / ...

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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter grabbed the highest-resolution full views of the Sun’s visible surface to date. The images were assembled using observations from the spacecraft’s PHI ...

An SwRI-led study of the Sun confirms decades-old theoretical models about solar magnetic reconnection. Measurements from NASA’s Solar Parker Probe helped fill crucial gaps in the data about processes ...

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