The sun's visible disk has been perfectly free from sunspots for the first time since June 2022, suggesting the current solar ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock its secrets. This region, which blazes at millions of degrees and throws ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have usedrare total solar eclipses to gain unprecedented insights into the turbulent structures of the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. This discovery, ...

“Here comes the sun” never sounded so ominous. The sun is putting on a superheated fireworks display. Our solar system’s light source just unleashed four powerful solar flares between Feb 1 and2, ...

In a teleconference Oct. 15, representatives from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the Sun has reached the peak level in its current cycle of activity ...

It’s the super-hot, churning ball of plasma whose surface reaches temperatures of 5,500°C (10,000F). Now, scientists have released the most detailed photo of our sun yet – and it gives a close-up ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, NASA researchers reveal that the Sun — long believed to be drifting into a historic lull — has instead been ramping up its activity since ...

For the first time ever, a spacecraft has snapped images of the sun’s south pole. These swirling gold-and-black views of the fiery ball of gas are key to understanding the solar magnetic storms that ...

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The Sky-Watcher Heliostar 76mm H-Alpha Solar Telescope is introduced as an accessible instrument for amateur solar observation, featuring a 76mm f/8.3 objective and an integrated high-performance ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? Current definitions define a star as a body that generates its own energy. While humans have relied on the sun for hundreds of thousands of years, it's only in the last ...