Large and complex sunspot groups characterize the surface of the dynamic sun during its activity cycle. A new camera system ...

The instrument can build a closer-than-ever, three-dimensional view of what’s happening on the sun’s surface, according to a news release. The close-up reveals a cluster of continent-size dark ...

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If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Some astrophotographers know when they’ve landed a killer shot, and Mark Johnston ...

Next month, NASA will get an up-close view of the solar activity as the Parker Solar Probe makes its closest-ever approach to the sun. The sun is awake. In recent months, Earth’s star has ramped ...

The mission was designed to study the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere, an ultrahot region known as the corona. Scientists are keen to observe the corona up close because researchers have ...

A spaceship has captured its most detailed picture of the Sun ever - and it doesn't look happy. The Solar Orbiter produced its widest high-res view of our star, showing the million-degree hot ...

But it will never venture any closer to the sun. The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was thwarted for decades ...

A new camera system has restored the full field of view of the VTT, capturing 8K images using 100 short exposures recorded at ...