Have you ever wondered what’s inside the Sun, the massive star that powers our solar system? In this video, we take a deep ...

Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

Each layer of the sun’s atmosphere exhibits distinct ... we estimate that at least 11,000 swirls are present on the sun at all times," Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm, a solar scientist at the University ...

A new 8K camera system at the Vacuum Tower Telescope in Tenerife captures images of the Sun's surface in stunning detail.

All things must come to an end ... It will swell to many times its current size. With the outermost layers of the sun so far and disconnected from the core, the surface temperature ironically ...

“Nobody really knows how those things fit together or even what they all are, and you can’t ... the plasma that makes up the outer layers of the sun. It may give rise to sunspots and create ...

For all that scrutiny, however, one crucial question remained embarrassingly unsolved. At its surface, the sun is a toasty 6,000 degrees Celsius. But the outer layers of its atmosphere ...

The wrong radius can also lead scientists to different conclusions about how certain layers of the Sun operate, so it’s vital to have an accurate size figure when exploring the endless ...