Just as the Moon completely covered the Sun during the April 8 eclipse, observers noticed an extremely bright point of light shining along the limb of the Moon. Was this a solar flare, and if not, ...
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission recently captured a dramatic solar prominence rising from the edge of the sun, a rare and captivating sight even for mission scientists accustomed to ...
The sun is always mesmerizing to watch, but Solar Orbiter captured a special treat on camera: a dark 'prominence' sticking out from the side of the sun. The dark-looking material is dense plasma ...
A NASA spacecraft has beamed home a spectacular new view of the sun, a photo that captures a vast tendril of solar plasma reaching across the surface of our nearest star. NASA's Solar Dynamics ...
As the Sun nears solar maximum, an abundance of phenomena dance across its surface. The chromosphere—the layer of the Sun sandwiched between the photosphere and the corona—swirls with filaments, ...
An elongated solar prominence rose up above the sun’s surface and slowly unraveled on Feb. 3, 2016, as seen in this video by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. Prominences, also known as ...
The dazzling red features, witnessed by millions during totality, were anticipated as a result of the Sun nearing its solar maximum phase. Reading time 2 minutes We were hoping for something like this ...
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