Discover the sun like never before as we explore its outer layers the corona chromosphere and photosphere and reveal the ...

The sun's lower atmosphere, the chromosphere, is usually drowned out by light from below it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has detailed the physical ...

Hawaii's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is giving us a detailed look at sunspots and convection cells. By Laura Baisas Published May 22, 2023 1:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Professional photographer and science communicator Miguel Claro has created an incredible time-lapse video of the Sun flinging out a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. Around one hour's worth of ...

As skies darkened Monday over North America during a rare solar eclipse, many people noticed bright dots — flickering spots that were reddish, pink and orange in hue — along the periphery of the moon ...

Like fingerprints, no two hybrid solar eclipses are the same. Many share general features, such as the solar corona, prominences, chromosphere, and more. But how these phenomena will appear to the ...

Watch online If you cannot watch the eclipse in person or the weather is unfavorable, you can watch the total solar eclipse live here on Space.com. And keep up with all the actions with our total ...