A new portrait taken with the world’s most powerful solar telescope has captured the face of our Sun in exquisite detail. The middle layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, known as the chromosphere, looks almost like a shag rug up close … Read More
You’ve probably heard that NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made history this year by becoming the first spacecraft to “touch the Sun.” Now there’s video of the probe whizzing through the Sun’s corona, and to say it’s breathtaking is an understatement … Read More
An astrophotographer has revealed his ‘clearest ever photo of the Sun.’ Andrew McCarthy layered 150,000 individual photographs of the Sun to represent the intricate and stunning detail of the solar system’s star. The photographer, known on Instagram as @cosmic-background, defines … Read More
The sunspot appeared last week as large but relatively calm in the active region 2882, or AR2882. But now it begins to activate and the AR2882 erupts with a powerful coronary mass ejection (CME) on the morning of October 9 … Read More
A new solar telescope in Hawaii has taken its first photo and video of the Sun. The images are the highest-resolution views of our star ever taken, revealing details on the Sun’s surface as small as 18 miles across. The … Read More
It should be easy as the gravity of the Sun always pulls us towards it. In fact, however, to reach it is far more difficult than to escape from it! But Why? Watch the video bellow: READ MORE: See the … Read More