Solar expert Dr. Ryan French explains how to safely photograph the sun and all of its stellar features with the use of cameras, lenses, telescopes and filters. When you purchase through links on our ...

However, perhaps the most dangerous astronomical undertaking — at least to the eye — is solar observing. I avoided this activity during my early years as an amateur astronomer. But in the summer of ...

Janus coasts past as the Cassini spacecraft takes in a view of the unilluminated side of the rings. Bright regions within the rings appear so because they allow scattered sunlight to filter through.