Filaments are cooler, dense ribbons of solar plasma that can hang suspended above the sun's surface by magnetic fields, according to NOAA.When these become unstable, they can erupt dramatically ...

At solar observatories scattered throughout the U.S., astronomers reached for their telephones one day last June and called the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Each observer had spotted ...

The research effort consists of over 40 teams around North America who will be taking images of the Sun with special solar telescopes to catch the Sun’s violent storms called Coronal Mass Ejections.