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Visuals from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region. Even better images are expected in the years ahead.
This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...
A violent solar eruption on May 31 launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) hurtling toward Earth, triggering a rare G4-level geomagnetic storm alert. Captured in real-time by U.S. Naval Research ...
Upgrades to the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope have delivered stunning new images of the ...
A new adaptive optics system reveals stunning, ultra-sharp views of the Sun’s corona—offering an unprecedented look at solar ...
The images show ultra-fine bright and dark stripes (called striations) in the thin, gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere ...
With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.
You can even spot thin, stripe-like patterns, called striations, on the Sun’s surface. This is the first time they've ever ...
Astronomers have captured videos of the sun without the typical blur caused by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere ...
The Sun’s magnetic field is stronger than Earth’s own, and in certain variable regions it can be thousands of times stronger.
In addition to the TMT, proposed federal funding cuts threaten the world-class Keck and Gemini observatories, the solar ...
A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...