Where it is: About 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth When it was shared: Dec. 10, 2024 Why it's so special: This stunning image shows the sun's corona during two total solar ...

revealing the Sun’s upper atmosphere, ... [+] the corona. Just published after months in transit and being post-processed, they show everything from its glowing corona to its messy magnetic field.

The Earth image has been overlaid to scale. Images of meteor-like fireballs have been spotted in images of the sun’s corona—it’s mysteriously hotter outer atmosphere. They were sent back by ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences depicted a complete physical image of the anomalous heating in the upper atmosphere of the sun (the solar corona and ...

The mission, part of a seven-year study, aims to uncover the mysteries of the Sun’s corona and solar wind. Travelling at 430,000 mph, the spacecraft is protected by a heat shield designed to ...

A pair of satellites just launched into space that may help scientists solve long–standing mysteries about the Sun's corona and how it ties in to space weather. Solar eclipses are a wonder to ...