Space NASA's Parker Solar Probe Captures Incredible Footage of Solar Eruption This remarkable mission not only sheds light on the mysteries of the Sun but also helps us better understand the interactions between solar phenomena and the space environment, contributing to improved space weather forecasting.
Space India Successfully Launches Its Aditya-L1 Solar Mission The spacecraft is equipped with seven scientific payloads, including instruments like a visible emission line coronagraph, a solar ultraviolet imaging telescope, and an X-ray spectrometer, which will collect crucial data and observations about the sun's behavior.
Space Astronomers Discover a Giant Sunspot Seven Times Wider Than Earth Astronomers have captured video footage of a massive sunspot that is seven times wider than Earth. The sunspot, designated AR3354, appeared on Monday, June 26, and disappeared by Sunday, July 2.
Space NASA's Sun-Touching Parker Solar Probe Catches the Solar Wind By uncovering the origin of the solar wind, NASA's Parker Solar Probe brings scientists one step closer to understanding the complex behavior of our star and improving our ability to predict and mitigate the impacts of solar activity on Earth.
Space A Giant Black Spot Four Times the Size of Earth Has Formed on the Sun Sunspots are areas with an extremely active magnetic field and sometimes serve as sources of strong solar flares, which lead to geomagnetic storms on Earth. Astronomers have been observing the AR3310 sunspot for some time.
Space The Most Powerful Solar Telescope Has Captured New Views of the Sun's Surface The Inouye Solar Telescope's unique ability to collect data in unprecedented detail will help scientists better understand the Sun's magnetic field and the processes that take place thereon.
Space A Strange and Unusual Vortex Was Spotted Around the Sun's North Pole Researchers explain that the Sun is now increasing its activity, but this is not a cause for concern. Such activity cycles occur quite frequently and coincide with fluctuations in the Sun's magnetic field.
Space NASA Released an Hour-long Time-Lapse Video Showing 133 Days of the Sun's Life From a series of images taken by cameras of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft, NASA specialists have created a stunning video showing how the Sun's surface has changed over 133 days.
Space Astronomers Discover a Huge Planet Killer Asteroid Over time, the movement of this asteroid will sync with that of the Earth, and it will cross much closer by, but it will happen centuries into the future. Any asteroid over 1km in size is considered a planet killer and enough to trigger a mass extinction event on Earth.
Space NASA Captured an Image of the Sun Smiling Despite the cheerful appearance of our star, what caused its smile might be rather unpleasant for the inhabitants of Earth and has a scientific explanation.
Space The Inouye Telescope Reveals New Images of the Sun's Chromosphere The Daniel Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii has taken new images of the Sun in great detail. The new images cover a chromospheric region 82,500 km wide and are just a small fraction of the Sun's total size.
Space Scientists Reveal How Our Sun Is Going to Evolve in the Future The Sun has been around for 4.57 billion years and has been getting hotter all along. Scientists have determined that the star will be the hottest in its lifetime at the age of 8 billion years.
Space Giant Sunspot Doubled in Size in Only 24 Hours AR3038 increased in size sharply at night of June 19 to 20. The sunspot was located slightly north of the solar equator and was facing the Earth. It disappeared from view in a few days.
Space Solar Orbiter Sends Back Amazing Images of the Sun Solar Orbiter is a collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA that was sent into space in 2020. The mission's task is to study the Sun's activity, its coronal mass ejections, magnetic fields ,and solar wind acceleration mechanisms.
Space Sunspot Activity Is Exceeding All Predictions The increase in the number of sunspots will also directly affect the number and power of flares, which can cause communications blackouts, power grid fluctuations and spectacular auroras.