Looking directly at the sun is a bad idea. That’s something that almost everyone learns from a very early age. Even when the sun is mostly blocked by an eclipse, you need to have special glasses on to ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of the sun's surface to date, providing fresh views of our well-studied star. The Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI), ...

In brief: The Solar Orbiter's ongoing mission to the Sun has unlocked invaluable information for researchers during its spiral around our star. The mission has already transformed our understanding of ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

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Solar Orbiter, a European Space Agency mission with support from NASA, has been studying the Sun like never before. It just delivered some incredible new observations of the Sun, which include the ...

The surface of our sun is a wild, violent place and now we can see it in exquisite detail, thanks to the first images returned by the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope ...

This view is just part of a new, high-resolution image of the sun's full surface captured by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Screenshot. ESA & NASA / ...

Christmas will be warm and bright for one NASA mission this year. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will swoop toward the fiery surface of the sun on Christmas Eve, traveling closer to the massive star than ...

NEW YORK — NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. This week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles ...

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