The sun lit up with a stunning display. Are northern lights next?

A new sunspot group has quickly grown and is spewing out the most intense type of solar flare. Effects on Earth are forecast ...
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NASA’s closest-ever sun photo has the internet asking 1 huge question

NASA’s latest close-up of our star is not just a pretty picture. When the Parker Solar Probe swooped to within 3.8 million miles of the Sun on Dec. 24, 2024, it delivered a view of the corona that no ...

Rare Solar Eruptions Explode From the Sun in New Space Time Lapse

A new time-lapse reveals the Sun’s inner corona glowing a faint yellow, offering a rare look at the hottest layer of our star’s atmosphere. The footage was created using images from the ASPIICS ...

Stunning NASA images show how the sun will consume Earth and create new planets one day

The Sun will die in about five billion years, swelling into a Red Giant before leaving a dense white dwarf behind. Although this is far in the future, astronomers examine other stars to glimpse our ...
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How we took the closest images of the sun!

Taking the closest images of the Sun wasn’t just a camera challenge — it was a survival challenge. To get that near, a probe has to dive through a storm of radiation and plasma hot enough to vaporize ...
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7 dazzling images of the sun

The sun is Earth's closest star, yet its beauty is too intense to appreciate with the naked eye. Here are some of the most ...
Nature

See the Sun expand and contract like a pufferfish — January’s best science images

Puffed-up Sun. Data from inside the Sun’s corona — the outermost layer of its atmosphere — helped astrophysicists to create a sharper picture of the Sun’s shifting boundaries than ever before. The ...