The sun’s activity is ramping up with more solar flares expected
The sun has been particularly active recently, and this weekend the Earth could experience effects of a solar storm.
ISS time-lapse shows how the sun sometimes doesn’t set
International Space Station astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has posted a gorgeous video showing the sun never really setting.
Observing wild activity on the sun could help predict space weather
See the incredible data captured by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft on its recent close pass of the sun.
Solar Orbiter image shows the boiling, roiling face of the sun
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has taken an incredible high-resolution image of the sun, showing its full face and its outer atmosphere or corona.
Telescopes turn on Parker Solar Probe’s latest approach to the sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has made another swing around the sun. And this time it was watched by both other spacecraft and by ground-based telescopes.
World’s most powerful solar telescope begins science operations
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai’i recently began its first science observations in the start of its year-long commissioning phase.
Solar Orbiter captures a dramatic solar prominence
Solar Orbiter, a mission to study the sun from NASA and ESA, recently took an image of the sun showing a dramatic solar prominence as it happened.
See the sun flaring thanks to the Solar Dynamics Observatory
This week, the Sun erupted with a powerful solar flare, and the incident was caught in real-time by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
NASA probe becomes first in history to ‘touch’ the sun
A NASA probe has “touched” the sun, making it the first human-made object to do so in a feat described by the agency as “one giant leap for solar science.”
Sun throws a Halloween tantrum, with a solar flare impacting Earth this weekend
A large solar flare will strike the Earth this weekend, but don’t worry – it won’t harm you, though it could cause issue for satellite communications.