New images of the sun’s surface captured by a powerful ground-based solar telescope have revealed sunspots and other features in unprecedented detail. The eight images, released on May 19, were ...

The telescope also photographed the chromosphere, the atmospheric level above the photosphere. There, images show dark tendrils "originating from locations of small-scale magnetic field ...

The chromosphere is the second layer in our sun's atmosphere. It extends for about 1,200 miles above the visible surface of the sun. The chromosphere is above the photosphere, the visible 'surface ...

As the Sun nears solar maximum, an abundance of phenomena dance across its surface. The chromosphere—the layer of the Sun sandwiched between the photosphere and the corona—swirls with ...

BENGALURU: It is possible to measure the Sun’s magnetic field using commercial dish TV antennas. In a major breakthrough to ...

This image by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveals the fine structures of a sunspot in the photosphere. Within the dark, central area of the sunspot’s umbra, small-scale bright dots ...

The chromosphere sometimes has dark hair-like threads of plasma called fibrils or spicules. They range from 125 to 280 miles in diameter and erupt up to the chromosphere from the photosphere and ...

Out beyond the sun's photosphere lies the atmosphere, which consists of the chromosphere and the solar corona. The chromosphere looks like a reddish glow fringing the sun, while the corona's huge ...

New images of the sun’s surface captured by a powerful ground-based solar telescope have revealed sunspots and other features in unprecedented detail. The eight images, released on May 19, were ...

New images of the sun's surface captured by a powerful ground-based solar telescope have revealed sunspots and other features in unprecedented detail.