For thousands of years, humans have worshipped the Sun. Our ancestors built monuments and temples to it, and used it to mark ...

Android phones have a cool function called Photo Sphere — unfortunately, unless you’re very steady and can manipulate the phone around its camera’s axis… the results aren’t that amazing.

And the next layer is just as perilous: the photosphere. This is the surface of the sun we see every day. Down here, you'll start to feel pretty lousy, because the sun's gravity is so strong ...

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but with less than a week to go before Comet ATLAS comes to within literally a hairbreadth of the sun's surface (called the ...

For a deeper look into the Sun’s interior, the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) measures the motion of the Sun’s photosphere and magnetic field strength and polarity. The HMI uses a ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe should have completed its seventh swing past Venus on Nov. 6 — the spacecraft's final maneuver ...

This corona is about a million times fainter than the sun’s photosphere, the bright yellowy surface that usually completely overwhelms it. The only time the corona is visible to the naked eye is ...

Right now, with the Parker Solar Probe, they're enjoying the delights of flying through the Sun's outer atmosphere, a mere 8 million km from the star's surface, or photosphere - the very place ...

All meet ISO 12312–2 transmission standards. The ULFs produce orange-tinted views of the photosphere, allowing observers to follow the ever-changing sunspots. It may look like a typical 2-inch ...

The orbiter carries seven scientific instruments which will observe and study the solar corona (the outermost layer); the photosphere (the Sun's surface or the part we see from the Earth ...

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