The images were taken less than 74 million kilometers (46 million miles) away from the Sun on March 22, 2023. The Sun is big so the instruments have to take multiple images that were then stitched ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a journey.

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of the sun's surface to date, providing fresh views of our well-studied star. On Wednesday (Nov. 20), the European Space ...

Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has snapped what might be the most detailed look at the surface of the Sun that anyone has ... get plenty of additional awesome images.

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

These preliminary images from a new suite of sensitive ... The viewer in the moon’s shadow sees scattered light from the sun’s surface that hits all of the electrons in the corona before ...