NASA’s Hinode satellite captured this breathtaking image of an annular solar eclipse on January 4, 2011. Credit:NASA/Hinode/XRT On Thursday, June 10, 2021, people across the…
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(Top panel, from left to right) July 12, 2012 coronal mass ejection seen in STEREO B Cor2, SOHO C2, and STEREO A Cor2 coronagraphs, respectively.…
Anatomy of our Sun. Credit: ESA Core This is where the Sun generates its energy. The temperature in the core is around 15 million degrees…
The visible surface of the Sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000°C. But a few thousand kilometers above it – a small distance when we consider…
Credit: Queen Mary University of London Researchers have confirmed the existence of magnetic plasma waves, known as Alfvén waves, in the Sun’s photosphere. The study,…
This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It has been processed to highlight the edges…
[embedded content]Combining imagery from three of Solar Orbiter’s remote sensing instruments – the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), the Metis coronagraph, and Solar Orbiter’s Heliospheric Imager…
Imagery from NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft detected the CME erupting from the Sun’s limb. This coronagraph image blocks the Sun’s bright surface (black circle, center image)…
Flare-driven coronal rain observed by AIA on board the SDO. Credit: NASA/SDO/Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio Rain is a common phenomenon on Earth. There is a…
Due to launch together in 2023, the two satellites making up Proba-3 will fly in precise formation to form an external coronagraph in space, one…
Two groups of fibrils, marked L2 and L4, converge and reconnect with each other. Two sets of newly formed fibrils, marked L1 and L3, then…
A rendering of Parker Solar Probe as it circles the sun—closer to a star than any spacecraft has ever ventured. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben…
A coronal mass ejection, or CME, erupting into space on August 31, 2012. Pictured here is a blended version of the 171 and 304 angstrom…
The solar corona viewed in white light during the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 from Mitchell, Oregon. The moon blocks out the central…
The chromosphere, photographed during the 1999 total solar eclipse. The red and pink hues – light emitted by hydrogen – earned it the name chromosphere,…
Artistic visualization of the Sun’s magnetic field in the active region observed by CLASP2. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) Every day space telescopes provide…
A view of the Sun from the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on ESA/NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO. Credit: ESA/NASA A theory as to…
Scientists used image processing on high-resolution images of the Sun to reveal distinct “plumelets” within structures on the Sun called solar plumes. The full-disk Sun…
The United States Post office announced on January 15, 2021, that they would be releasing a series of stamps highlighting images of the Sun captured…
A secret behind the workings of sunquakes – seismic activity on the Sun during solar flares – might be hidden beneath the solar surface. These…