Small-scale magnetic structures of the ‘quiet sun’ at high resolution. Credit: DKIST Astronomers are one step closer to understanding one of the most enduring solar mysteries, having captured ...

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

Rippling beneath the photosphere layer is hot plasma that shifts around in the sun’s convection zone, similar to how hot magma moves within Earth’s mantle. The PHI instrument’s purpose is to map the ...

The outermost layer of the Sun, known as the photosphere, is made of bubbling hot gas. It contains millions of granules, each typically with a diameter of about 1,000 kilometres 1, which are formed ...