The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ultra-powerful imaging tool. Here’s what you can see.

The sun is the star at the center of our solar system.It's the largest, brightest and most massive object in the solar system, and it provides the light and heat that life on Earth depends on ...

The Solar Orbiter has been observing the sun since 2021, but it recently went on a side trip to Venus which significantly tilted its orbit and gave it a good view of the sun's polar region.

Specifically, the X2.7 flare—the strongest so far this year—took place while the sun was over the Middle East and interrupted high frequency radio signals in the area for around ten minutes ...

A number of photos taken by the Solar Orbiter in early March were joined together to produce the widest high-resolution view of the Sun yet. In fact a whopping 200 individual images, taken by the ...

Their observations revealed that the host star was between one to 1.6 times the mass of our Sun, while the pulsar was more likely 1.4 stellar masses. Determining the make of the host star, however ...

“When the sun is at its minimum, you have a north pole and a south pole, each with its own magnetic polarity,” Anik De Groof, Solar Orbiter’s mission manager, tells the New York Times ...