High Resolution Coronal Imager Launches to Study Sun’s Corona
NASA and its partners launched a rocket-borne camera to the edge of space at 2:54 p.m. EDT on May 29, 2018, on its third flight…
NASA and its partners launched a rocket-borne camera to the edge of space at 2:54 p.m. EDT on May 29, 2018, on its third flight…
As we develop more and more powerful tools to peer beyond our solar system, we learn more about the seemingly endless sea of faraway stars…
A team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the University of Göttingen has discovered gigantic swirls on the…
A team of physicists, including NJIT’s Gregory Fleishman, has discovered previously undetected energy in the Sun’s coronal loops. The Sun’s corona, invisible to the human…
Scientists agree the sun will die in approximately 10 billion years, but they weren’t sure what would happen next…until now. A team of international astronomers,…
From March 20-23, 2018, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured three sequences of our Sun in three different extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. The resulting images illustrate how…
The more solar observatories, the merrier: Scientists have developed new models to see how shocks associated with coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, propagate from the…
Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast have led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery that magnetic waves crashing through the Sun may be key to…
Living near a star is risky business, and positioning a spacecraft near the Sun is a very good way to observe rapidly changing solar activity…
A dramatic magnetic power struggle at the Sun’s surface lies at the heart of solar eruptions, new research using NASA data shows. The work highlights…
The Sun glows with a surface temperature of about 5,500 degrees Celsius (9,900 degrees Fahrenheit). On the other hand, its hot outer layer, the corona,…
The Sun might emit less radiation by mid-century, giving planet Earth a chance to warm a bit more slowly but not halt the trend of…
Magnetism plays a critical role in various solar phenomena such as flares, mass ejections, flux ropes, and coronal heating. Sunspots are areas of concentrated magnetic…
Sunspots are regions on the Sun’s photosphere that appear darker than surrounding areas because they are cooler, usually by one or two thousand degrees Celsius….
When our Sun erupts with giant explosions — such as bursts of radiation called solar flares — we know they can affect space throughout the…
This sequence of images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the Sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere all taken at about the same…
Next Summer NASA will launch the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun than any other in human history. Parker…
For the first time, researchers reconstruct and detail the two phenomena that are responsible for the fluctuation of brightness in our sun. The Sun shines…