Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have fired up their newest tool, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF), and captured its first images of our sun. This breakthrough gives scientists an unprecedented ...

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world’s largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in unprecedented detail, shedding light on its fiery complexity.

A narrow-band image of the Sun at a wavelength of λ=588.9nm, that of a well known solar sodium line also known as the “NaD line.” The image was acquired during recent first light efforts with ...

It showed what appeared to be a close-up image of the sun, with red, orange and white hues across our solar system's central star. Despite what many captions claimed, the image was not a NASA photo.