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Sun-like stars release massive quantities of radiation into space more often than previously believed.
Two spacecraft will create artificial eclipses to study the Sun’s corona.
Astronomers detect long-lasting radio auroras from a sunspot, enhancing understanding of solar and stellar magnetic activities.
Coronal loops may not be what they seem.
A reliable way to detect coronal holes using CHRONNOS.
You could fit nearly one million Earth-sized planets and the sun isn't even that big of a star.
Work on that summer bod, but be sure to protect it from the sun as well!
I have it on very good authority that it's more than 20 degrees, for sure.
Up close and per-Sun-al.
This is the story of our Sun; its past, present, and future.
Science -- because you can't prove there's magnetic pastry in space any other way.
These one-of-a-kind images of the sun are the closest ever acquired by cameras.
It's going to be a good month for stargazers.
Could sunlight be an ally against COVID-19? This study suggests so.
It has an atmosphere much more complex than initially thought.
It looks like caramel corn. Yum!
The Sun has enough hydrogen fuel to last it another 5 billion years. However, life on Earth might become extinct as early as 1 billion years from now.
The temperature around the sun is millions of times hotter than the sun's surface itself.
It was tens of thousands of times more massive than the ones our Sun puts out.
We're basically copying off of Nature.
It also met a lot of asteroids it still hangs around with.
Sunny days ahead!
We have a spacecraft inside the sun's atmosphere -- take that in for a moment.
The 'twin' was forged in the same stellar nursery as the Sun. It also has the same age, metallicity, chemical abundances, and even carbon-isotope ratios as the Sun.
Spooky!
And it's only getting warmed up.
With a bit of help from NASA, you can now hear the sun's roar -- and it's glorious.
A modern-day Icarus -- but this one won't get burned.
Don't judge. Forgetting about babies in the car could happen to anyone.
Are you breaking up with us, Sun?!
He was one of the pioneers of studying solar activity.
Scientists think this is a left over effect since the sun formed billions of years ago. In time, solar wind likely slowed the rotation of the outer sun.
It could make a huge difference.
It's eclipse season for the Solar Observatory
It just needed some space...
The swirling gases could shed light on the atmosphere of other planets within and outside of our solar system.
A spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) gives us a glimpse into how the Sun will look at its death.
The Sun is easily the most recognizable and important star that humanity has ever known. And yet, those who want to study it come face to face with a tiny weensy problem -- it tends to burn your retinas if you look at it.
We call it the "dark side" of the Moon, but that's a rather improper name - a better one would be the "far side", because it's not dark at all. As if to prove that point, NASA just released images of the moon that would be impossible to capture from Earth, highlighting the far side illuminated completely.
It's a remarkable day for NASA and space observations: the Solar Dynamics Observatory has taken its 100,000,000th photo! The mission, which has been in continuous operation since 2010 has greatly contributed to our understanding of the Sun and the Sun-Earth relationship.
In what’s considered the first find out of a slew to follow, a team of astronomers have identified a star that originated out of the same matter as our own sun. In lack of a better analogy, the two are siblings and probably share many more sisters. Apart from telling us where in the galaxy […]
One of the biggest mysteries in solar physics is how is it possible that the sun’s surface is colder than its atmosphere. At first glance, it seems that the sun’s atmosphere, called the corona, is hotter than the heat source which is preposterous given the second law of thermodynamics. So, either the sun doesn’t care […]
As the sun approaches the end of its 11-year-long cycle, scientists expect during one flash to change its polarity, ‘flipping’ upside down. You might think this would come at a cataclysmic expense, but there is absolutely no need to get alarmed. This happened every 11 years for as far as we can tell and each […]
Lately, the sun has received a lot of thrash talk for the harm it causes with exposure, increasing the risk of skin cancer. But a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Edinburgh has shown that the benefits of exposure to UV rays may be greater than the risk of getting skin cancer, […]
Yesterday, residents in many parts of the US were treated to a wonderful sight as the sun became wrapped in a rainbow halo. Like a brilliant all seeing eye, the sun cast its rays from a most privileged position prompting some unsuspecting people to believe an alien invasion is nigh. ZME Science folks, however, know […]
The sun has been extensively studied by astronomers for the last 50 years. While previous research suggested that the the sun is slightly sun bulged a bit around the middle , making it very slightly flying-saucer shaped, new measurements however taken by a satellite suggest that its shape is the closest to that of a perfect […]
The sun recently shout out an M3.2-class solar flare in our direction, which scientists expect to hit the Earth this Saturday. The coronal mass ejection however is too weak to cause any havoc like doomsday fanatics might hope, just an incredible “fireworks” display as the charged particles hit the Earth’s magnetic field resulting in spectacular aurora […]
In a remarkable find, archeologists have uncovered two ancient pits, perfectly aligned with the sun’s natural summer cycle. These suggest that the Stonehenge site was a place for sun worship at least 500 years before the first stone was erected. Archaeologists from the universities of Birmingham, Bradford and Vienna were involved in an on-going survey work […]
Astronomers have discovered the largest body of water so far known, a reservoir of water floating in space around a ancient distant quasar, holding 140 trillion times the mass of water in the Earth’s oceans. Remarkably enough, the find was dated as being 12 billion light years away, only 1.6 billion light years farther from […]
Every once in a while, the Sun gets a little hungry; in those times, it grabs on a little comet snack, and every once in a while, these ‘snacks’ are caught on tape. However, never has a comet been captured so spectacularly in its final moments as with the video released by NASA Tuesday. This […]
