A photograph of the transit of Mercury of 9 May 2016. Mercury is seen in silhouette as the dark dot below left of centre. The…
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Credit: NASA/SDO Recently, this image from NASA showing the sun looking quite a bit like a flaming Jack-o’-Lantern has been all over mainstream news outlets.…
The most sunspots and, thus, the greatest magnetic activity are located close to the solar equator. Scientists have now demonstrated for this region a specific…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this view of a solar eruption on April 21, 2015. Credit: NASA/SDO Will the Sun become a black hole? No,…
Images from IRIS show the tadpole-shaped jets containing pseudo-shocks streaking out from the Sun.Credits: Abhishek Srivastava IIT (BHU)/Joy Ng, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientists…