Each layer of the sun’s atmosphere exhibits ... different regions rotate at different rates. The sun's equatorial regions rotate in about 24 days, while the polar regions take more than 30 ...

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

The layers of the sun's interior also rotate at different speeds with inner regions actually rotating more like the solid bodies of the inner solar system. Astronomers estimate that the core of ...

it is vital for any simulation to capture the fundamental interplay between the Sun’s radiation and conditions in the vastly different layers of the Sun’s atmosphere (the photosphere ...

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ultra-powerful imaging tool. Here’s what you can see.