NASA launches probe on historic mission to study the sun 02:38. The largest solar telescope in Europe has released unprecedented close-up images of the sun — and they are a little bit terrifying ...

These images show the sun in a variety of wavelengths. They are arranged by temperature, from the 10,800 F (6,000 C) surface of the sun to the 50 million F (10 million C) outer atmosphere.

The sun looks surprisingly stringy and porous in a series of new images from the world's most powerful solar telescope. It's almost creepy. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has been observing ...

New images of the sun’s surface captured by a powerful ground-based solar telescope have revealed sunspots and other features in unprecedented detail. The eight images, released on May 19, were ...

The sun is taking center stage with recent solar flare activity sparking modest space weather tomorrow, with an added metaphorical selfie as NASA recently released the first-ever images of the sun ...

New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas ...

The first images from Solar Orbiter, a NASA-European Space Agency spacecraft, show tiny, never-before-seen flares across the sun’s surface.

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...

For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to the European Space Agency s Solar Orbiter and its tilted orbit ...

Solar Orbiter image of the sun in visible light, taken on March 22, 2023. Sunspots are cooler than the surrounding surface. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team ...