Nearby Star Could Help Explain Sunspot Mystery That Has Baffled Scientists for 300 Years
The number of sunspots on our sun typically ebbs and flows in a predictable 11-year cycle, but one unusual 70-year period when sunspots were incredibly…
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Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Captures the Full Sun in Unprecedented Detail
The newest photographs from the Solar Orbiter reveal unprecedented detail of the whole Sun. They were taken on March 7, 2022, when the spacecraft passed…
Mysterious, Swirling Waves Discovered in the Sun – Incredible Speed Defies Explanation
Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi’s (NYUAD) Center for Space Science have discovered a new set of waves in the Sun that, unexpectedly, appear to travel…
Coronal Loops Might Not Be Loops at All – “When I Saw the Results, My Mind Exploded.”
We’ve all seen the gorgeous images and videos of coronal loops. They’re curved magnetic forms that force brightly glowing plasma to travel along their path….
NASA Mourns Passing of Visionary Heliophysicist Eugene Parker – Namesake of Parker Solar Probe
Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, has passed away. He was 94. As a young professor at…
Solar Orbiter Crosses the Earth-Sun Line As It Speeds Towards Its Historic First Close Pass of the Sun
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft is speeding towards its historic first close pass of the Sun. On March 14, the spacecraft will pass the orbit…
ESA Vigil: Earth’s Devoted Solar Defender – The First Mission of Its Kind
It’s the first mission of its kind, set to monitor our active and unpredictable Sun and help protect us from its violent outbursts – and…
Powerful Telescopes Trained on Parker Solar Probe’s Latest Swing Around the Sun
As NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completes its latest swing around the Sun, it’s doing so in full view of dozens of other spacecraft and ground-based…
A Solar Illusion: Coronal Loops on the Sun May Not Be What They Seem
New study challenges long-held assumptions about the structure of the Sun’s atmosphere. Many coronal loops — ropey strands of plasma that scientists have long thought…
Massive Solar Eruption Captured by Solar Orbiter Spacecraft
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in a single image together with the full solar disc. Solar…
HelioSwarm and MUSE: New Sun Missions to Help NASA Unlock the “Mysteries of Our Star”
NASA has selected two science missions – the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) and HelioSwarm – to help improve our understanding of the dynamics of the…
Mysterious Solar Storm Occurred 9,200 Years Ago – Revealed by Ancient Ice
Through analysis of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found evidence of an extreme solar…
In 1999 Mysterious Finger-Like Features Were Spotted on the Sun – Now Scientists Have an Explanation
In January 1999, scientists observed mysterious motions within a solar flare. Unlike typical flares that showed bright energy erupting outwards from the Sun, this solar…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Mid-Level Flare Erupting From the Sun
The Sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on January 20, 2022, peaking at 1:01 a.m. EST. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly,…
Research Shows Gravitational Action of Sun and Moon Influences Behavior of Plants and Animals
Research conducted at the University of Campinas in Brazil was driven by observations of fluctuations in autoluminescence caused by seed germination in cycles regulated by…
Spacecraft Enters the Sun’s Blistering Hot Corona for the First Time in History
An instrument made by scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics has helped verify that — for the first time in history — a…
Parker Solar Probe: For the First Time in History, a Spacecraft Has Touched the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now done what no spacecraft has done before—it has officially touched the Sun. Launched in 2018 to study the Sun’s…
Solar Orbiter Has Already Made a Wealth of Science Discoveries
For a mission yet to have entered its main science phase, Solar Orbiter has already generated a lot of great science. Today sees the publication…
