Sharpest-ever view of the Sun’s surface reveals ultra-fine magnetic “stripes,” known as striations. Credit: NSF/NSO/AURA Scientists used the world’s largest solar telescope to capture incredibly ...

Perihelion is an annual astronomical event when Earth finds itself at the closest distance possible toward the Sun. Usually it falls between the dates of January 2 and 4 as Earth is around 147 million ...

The vast emptiness of space is growing emptier one star at a time. That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are devouring stars ten times the size of the sun. In a new ...

Solar expert Dr. Ryan French explains how to safely photograph the sun and all of its stellar features with the use of cameras, lenses, telescopes and filters. As we all learn from a young age, the ...

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