The Sun, a crucial and omnipresent aspect of our lives, still holds many mysteries despite its importance. Recently, it has displayed a remarkable occurrence. A filament of plasma from the Sun’s surface broke away and seemingly formed a vortex resembling … Read More
An observatory in close solar orbit captured a snake seemingly slinking across the surface of the Sun in a new video. However, the “serpent” observed by the Solar Orbiter of the European Space Agency is not a real stellar squamate … 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
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
For centuries, scientists have been puzzled by the gigantic and unpredictable outflows of plasma from the Sun, sometimes so aggressive that they can cause the glow of the Earth and disturb communications on our planet. But an international team … Read More