Orbiting Instrument Offers Scientists the Lowdown on Sun’s Super-Hot Atmosphere A phenomenon first detected in the solar wind may help solve a long-standing mystery about…
NASA’s IRIS Spots Nanojets: Shining Light On Heating the Solar Corona In a paper published today (September 21, 2020) in Nature Astronomy, researchers report the…
For the first time, a computer simulation shows how solar material burst from the sun’s surface form, helping astronomers understand how these spicules can break…
A team of astronomers has observed a long-hypothesized mechanism for coronal heating in which magnetic waves are converted into heat energy. Modern telescopes and satellites…
New data from NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer is making it possible to study the explosive phenomena in the region located between the surface of…
NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) took its first images of the Sun, revealing the mysterious lowest layers of the sun’s atmosphere. The moment when…