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A NOAA GOES satellite's SUVI instrument captured a pair of solar prominences. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NOAA/SUVI | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

The sun's inner corona, the hottest part of our star's atmosphere, appears faint yellow in a time-lapse made from images taken by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Scientists have produced the finest images of the Sun's corona to date. To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur ...

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Thousands of solar tornadoes swirl above the sun’s surface at any given moment. These remarkable photos give us a glimpse at these stunning cosmic phenomena. The entire disc of the sun captured on ...

A giant prominence ejected in the direction of the north pole of the star has been detected on the Sun. This was announced on March 3 at the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy at the Institute of Space ...

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A powerful new optics system has captured the clearest view yet of the Sun’s corona, revealing stunning plasma structures. Reading time 2 minutes The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—is the piping ...

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun’s corona, revealing clearest images to date This time-lapse video of a prominence above the solar surface reveals ...