Some theories suggest they are produced by “magnetars” – the highly magnetised cores of massive, dead stars – or arise from ...

NASA captured an image of the sun emitting a powerful solar flare that could interfere with technology on Earth.

T he most powerful instrument of its kind has now taken its first picture of the sun. Although the Inouye Solar Telescope began operating from its perch on the Hawaiian volcano Haleakala in 2022 ...

The images we're seeing of the Sun's cheeky grin don't do justice to just how huge it is. As ScienceAlert notes, this coronal hole is as wide as five Jupiters lined up side-by-side, which would ...

Sometimes, a picture can be worth much more than a thousand words. For instance, one measure associated with the pictures below—new high-definition snapshots of the cosmos in its infancy—is ...

But this also means that if you take a picture of the sun at noon every single day, the sun is going to move around the sky. It ends up tracing out this figure-8 shape, known as an analemma.